Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Reli… - Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.

Further, economic systems … have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?