God count: Zero, One, or Many?

Though I agree that many of the most morally "good" people I've met count their Gods on zero fingers...

Where do you think this "innate" character of "doing right by your fellow man" come from? This question is addressed to atheists.

Answer from one of those, in the form of a question back at you: does it come from an ancient book, or just from being taught to do good things by your parents & peers? Again, this is spinning off my original topic. If any of you want to debate the source of morality, let's start elsewhere. I just wanted to count Gods here.

Zero for me. I never understood the often repeated argument about people having an innate character of not behaving badly towards others as a reason the Christian God should exist. That would be like saying that since many species are "programmed" to behave better towards one another than towards other species (warning each other for enemies etc) there must not only exist a God that is a bird, but that Kehaar of Watership Down must be the one true God.

one

all you god-less people can not blame god for this worlds messed up state

you have to blame humanity itself

how can you swear to god?

you hear atheists exclaim, 'oh my god' at times which from them is meaningless dribble is it not?

My belief: As long as you are a good person, there is no right or wrong path to God - All will lead you there, regardless of what you call God or what your visage of God is. If you are a bad person with evil in your heart, well, there are a lot of names and visages for Satan, too.

Non-denominational, by definition, is "being open or acceptable to people of any Christian denomination". So that couldn't apply to me. Who am I to say that a Buddhist or a Muslim is wrong in their faith? Just because they aren't Christian doesn't make them wrong. So I just call my belief system being open-minded.

 Humanity is to blame for bone-cancer in children, for the anopheles mosquito that kills so many? 

 Your belief in a single god is down to chance, born in a Christian culture you will most likely be indoctrinated with that version of god, in a Muslim one and you will be falling down before Allah, in India and you're likely to be polytheisitc, etc. 

 fabelhaft makes the most salient point, it is in the interests of the species to behave in a moral way. 

Just to answer the OP: One.

 Maybe only believing in only one god is a sign that a person is against diversity and susceptible to prejudice and elitism?

*I think it's common for the atheist to look at psychological motivations for people believing in gods:)*

@NomadicKnight: Sounds like you believe that atheists can't be good (without stopping being an atheist).

No, I think it's a simple matter of "to each his own". Believe in something or don't. That's an individual right. Believe in one form of God or another, that also is an individual right. To each his own. You can be an athiest and be a good person. The key is being a good person.

God = THE QUESTION everybody asks in LIFE.

So long as there is life there will always be that question.

One they will never get an answer to.

Even atheists are born from God (THAT QUESTION everybody asks in LIFE).

"Atheists" would not manifest if there were not THAT QUESTION.

In this case, the answer is clear  - which came first? atheists or God?

Atheism is a negation of the claims of gods existing. So first there was the claim of gods existing, then there was the negative reply;)

No. God is THAT QUESTION which remains no matter what.

From which two types of people are born.

One who provides the answer = that there is an omnipotent, all knowing entity that created everything. (These guys came first)

And the other, that negates that answer.

"believe" is something that humans do. It's a human behaviour.

Okay, let us say that long ago, prior to global comminication, people assumed a creator or creators of the earth instead of seeing the earth as part of an indifferent universe which has no understandable beginning. Since that time, things have changed. The scary forest of legends and myths has been made habitable now. And there are no tempestuous gods and demons running about. So now an infant, who cannot be said to be born with ideas of gods since it remains unknown what ideas an infant is born with if any, is not taught to believe in gods. Then in a community of people who don't believe in gods, the infant will grow up without those beliefs. Gods are just not needed to explain things any longer, save for the personal gods of the imagination and feelings of the individual:)

What you say (in bold above) is not true. Along with my first consciousness came my belief in God and my rejection of the cultural practices and beliefs that I found nocent. I was 4 y.o.ish at the time...long before there was any talk of "God" in my houselhold.