Has there ever been a society/culture/ethic group in the history of the world?

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that was only composed of atheists?
I'm interested in finding out how a society would create moral guidelines without any kind of divine doctrine or beliefs.
 
Ancient man organized into hunting/gathering groups long before he had time to think up gods


morality is subjective and ever evolving and comes from society, not a book
 
If you are interested, read the US Constitution - it created the first 100% secular government in human history and explicitly chose the law of man (and not any God's law) to be the law of the land.
 
There is a large atheist group, nationally known but of course I can't remember their name, that does a Wonderful job explaining ethics and morality based on nonreligious thinking! Look on Net. They may have historical information.
 
Are you speaking of a society that disagrees with your form of religion? Then the answer is absolutely yes, no matter what you believe.
As for atheism, (without a religious belief) the Soviet Union managed to survive very successfully without any form of religious belief. Had they believed more in capitalism the empire might still be intact.
 
Communism.

Lenin forced Jews out of Russia and made Russian Orthodox churches military targets. Atheism (or absence of religious organizations) was made the law of the land, at significant loss of life before the fall of communism in the 80s.

In 1987, three world-changing events took place:

1--Gorbachev made a single statement about the fact that he won't oppose some social issue that existed in Poland, and as a result, all the anti-communist political activist groups came out of hiding and overthrew the communist party in fair elections. Seeing that, almost a dozen other Eastern Bloc countries were inspired and did the same thing in their own countries, and Gorbachev found himself losing 1/4 of the Soviet Union and really unpopular in his own country.

2--Jews began flooding out of the Soviet Union to escape religious oppression. Israel's population skyrocketed, and for the first time since their founding, there were so many immigrants that they had to change their "open door policy" to Jews from around the world moving to Israel.

3--Russian Orthodox churches began popping up all over the country almost over night, finally freed from their religious oppression and no longer having to meet in secret.

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"Those who don't learn from history are forced into the ignoble ranks of the idiots who came before them."
 
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