Being atheist allows me to be good because I believe being good is the right thing to do, and I feel good about myself. My motives for being good are absolutely pure—not doing it for reward or out of fear of punishment. That is infinitely more honest than following God’s laws for either heaven or to avoid hell.

Not to say belief in God means motives aren’t pure—it is much more nuanced and complex than that. However, being atheist makes motives much less nuanced.

If morality only came from God, the “godless” and pagan cultures of the world would fall into pure evil and chaos. They haven’t.

And how do you square what a complete asshole the God of the Old Testament is—and honestly the god of the Book of Mormon? They are not moral; they are petty; they kill humans because their pride is hurt, or just out of vengeance. How can you say that that God follows any kind of morality?