Atheistic Compulsion
I think the most frequent charge levelled at atheists by the religious, usually evangelical Christians, is that we must be immoral* people without [their] God's laws to guide us. Utter rubish, of course, but these critics are not renowned for applying the brains their God gave them.
At any rate, I found the following amusing, and so modern sounding in its hyperbole. The discussion is about attitudes that manifested themselves in contemporary (i.e., later 19th century) reaction to Charles Darwin's ideas:
More was apparently at stake than mere science. The Times of London put it succinctly: "If our humanity be merely the natural product of the modified faculties of the brutes, most earnest-minded men will be compelled to give up those motives by which they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives, as founded on a mistake."
[Chet, "On Morality", Science Musings Blog, 15 June 2005.]
The apparent implication is that all these "earnest-minded men", upon hearing the un-Godly idea that monkeys were indeed their uncles, will at once cast aside all their moral adherences and run screaming into the streets to rape, pillage, and plunder.
In fact, they will be compelled to do so. Imagine hordes of roving, immoral atheists breaking down the doors of "earnest-minded" men's houses and dragging these same men kicking and screaming into the streets, requiring them to rape, pillage, and plunder.
Such a vivid imagination.
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*For this crowd who, as we shall see, cling unquestioningly to the Law of the Excluded Middle, we cannot be merely "amoral" — either we're "moral" or "immoral", and it can't be the first one.