Atheists can live as moral a life as any religious person. Where atheists have a problem is in pinning down a definition of what morality is. Religious people have that same problem. Because religions and factions within religions don't agree, we're all in the same boat. So there is no reason to pull a New Atheist tantrum, or preach a proselytizing evangelical/fundamentalist sermon and try to lord it over one another. There is no "they." There is only us. Life is too short to know, so religion's most basic lesson -- humility -- is not just a good idea but also logical. And humility is, I think, also the most basic lesson taught by science, which, by definition, illumines the vastness of our ignorance.
Patience With God, p. 43-44
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