You are claiming that my disbelief arises from pure selfishness. How better to justify my nonstop orgies, crack addiction, and Napster use than to believe that I won’t be judged in the hereafter?

Of course, if I wanted to live an amoral life, I’m doing a pretty bad job of it. For the most part I’m a straight arrow: good job, suburban home, pregnant wife, clean teeth and gums… Sure, I’ve had a few ethical lapses in my life, but I never justified those lapses by invoking the nonexistence of God.

The basis for this argument is the smug assumption that atheists are immoral. This belief is so astonishingly ignorant of ethical Philosophy that I can only see it as intellectually dishonest.