I am moral for morality’s sake, not out of fear. I can’t deny that my Catholic upbringing may have had something to do with my morality but that doesn’t change the fact that I am unsure as to whose, if anyone’s, view of an unprovable supreme being (or lack thereof) is correct. I’ll remain curious until my dying day...unless, of course, I discover the truth beforehand. I’ll keep searching in the meantime as mine is a personal search for truth irrespective of the opinions, no matter how well-meaning, of others.
I wish people would concern themselves with my opinion as much as I concern myself with theirs...and definitely no more.
And most people are moral without god (I have spent much of my life working with non Christians). Yet, as one of my teachers told us many years ago, few docs are pious types but few are atheists because we see so many things we don't understand: the dying who get better, the good who die despite all we do, etc. and most of us would go crazy or become crass and cynical if we didn't believe there was a reason for these things.