Have you chaps noticed that almost always, when a Christian person speaks of atheism, the words "morals" or "morality" float to the top? Many of us, perhaps most of us live quiet lives in which we embrace a high degree of day-to-day behavior which could only be described as "moral." For example, if I may, I married only once and my beautiful wife (who passed away in '03) and I were devoted to each other. I paid, and I pay, taxes; I never struck one of our kids; I vote; I participate in anti-war and human rights demonstrations in my city, I read books and write plays, I enjoy the company of gosh knows how many friends and colleagues in the classical theatre around N.A. and in Europe, I speak and read in three languages, I neither steal nor pointlessly lie. At age 9 I put away belief in a primitive god. Though I am now 71 and disabiled, I remain in the warm embrace of my life's work, the professional theatre. Ask 800,000 atheists, and to you would come parallel answers.
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