IMHO, most atheists aren’t. They just don’t believe in Judeo-Christian view of God. Most I have known are very moral people and the most confusing question I ask them is where their sense of right and wrong came from. Where did their strong desire to express truth as they believe it come from when it would be so much easier to just pretend to believe. Where did their love come from, whether for their mate, their children or just some dumb pet, like a kitten.
Most really can’t answer and I don’t press, I just ask them to think about it and think about the possibility that there is just something in us that is more than we see, and something more in the universe that we just don’t fully understand.
parsy, who has had his doubts at times
Doubt is what foreshadows atheism. Hang in there - :•)
The Golden Rule, older than the invention of religion, is the source of morality for all human beings, Atheist, or otherwise.