Maximizing Moral Virtue

[Aegon]

No I'm mostly just appealing to what I see, most of the Atheists I've met in person are just kids who were raised in the wrong church who wanted to rebel against their parent's ultra-strict interpretation of how to apply the Bible. The more outspoken ones were more bitter.

I don't know why I'm replying because you don't actually respond to me but:

Sure, that's how a lot of atheists stop believing. I rejected the Catholicism that my parents raised me under. But there's been significant growth since then, my beliefs are no longer just to rebel against my parents? As is the case with most atheists over the age of 18...

 If you don't have a value or a purpose, beyond whatever you can imagine, then you will always have a weaker basis for morality and happiness. Anyone can be taken from you, and as anyone who has ever won the lottery can tell you, that age old mantra that, "money can't buy happiness," reigns true.

Yet your notion of value comes from your conception of God, something you quite literally imagine. It does not exist outside of your mind. And once again, you present a false dichotomy - either believe in God or believe in nothing and derive no real value from life. For the second time, I'm telling you it's more nuanced than that.