India is not atheistic, but the Hindu religion does not improve the moral condition of the people. Bhandri notes, “Lacking virtues and spirituality, people visited temples to get material favors from their favorite deities.” A common misconception of atheists is that people created religions to establish codes of morality and to give them hope of an afterlife. That is not true, as most religions are far less concerned about those things than they are about gaining blessings in this world. In addition, atheists like to frame the essential argument as religion (in general) versus atheism. That is way too simplistic. The world around us makes clear that many religions produce absolutely awful cultures. All religions are not the same. All “gods” are not like the Christian God. All cultures are not like the West. https://orthodoxreflections.com/is-christian-morality-anything-special/