Good without God?

Newsweek's and Washington Post's "On Faith" takes a look

Atheists have long contended that a person doesn't have to believe in God to do good things. I think the Christian can agree that people don't have to believe in God to do benevolent things because of the common grace of God. But the Christian must contend that the atheist may do good things, but has no foundation to do so.

Atheism is largely propagated through the belief in natural selection, or that everything that exists today was through a natural process of weeding out weak things in favor of the strong. In natural selection, only the strong survive.

But that is not how atheists behave. They behave as if weak things, particularly weak people, matter and shouldn't be harmed by something stronger. Most atheists believe that it would be monstrous for stronger nations or human beings to oppress weaker ones. But that is a leap of faith. They act as if weak people have dignity, but they certainly aren't learning that from nature or evolution. In what is the ultimate irony, the atheist, in order to justify their goodness, relies on faith.