[Tribune7]

Then why should I care if I have to account to anyone?

That may be the dumbest question to be asked on this thread.

You don't know why you should care about being accountable? Because you are accountable.

If you get drunk and drive and hit someone with your car, you will face a policeman from whom you can't run, and a judge who will put you in jail. Do I have to explain why you should care about avoiding this? Maybe so. As the thread says, atheists are irrational.

You will be less happy being in jail than free. So don't drink, drive and harm someone.

Or are you claiming that the pursuit of pointless pain should somehow trump obedience to the law?

[Dimensio]

If you get drunk and drive and hit someone with your car, you will face a policeman from whom you can't run, and a judge who will put you in jail.

In other words, we should obey God because we do not desire to be punished, right? The traditional Christian view of 'punishment' by the authority figure known as "God" involves torment, thus your motivation for obeying this God is borne from a desire to avoid pain.

Which I think was BikerNYC's point all along, but I'll let BikerNYC make the final call on that.

[BikerNYC]

Then you do think that you should do what leads to physical pleasure. If I don't do what God says, I will be punished. I should do what I have to do to avoid punishment.

That sounds like the moral code of a two-year-old