Atheism is not the view that there are no god. Some proportion of individual atheists may indeed subscribe to that view, but there is nothing in atheism that proposes or requires it. Atheism is simply the response to theism, that theistic claims have not met their burden of proof.
As to the morality thing, echoing pablo's comments: wouldn't it be useful if any supposed supernatural outside agency instructing on our morals at least made sure that the instructions are consistent? Yet different cultures throughout history have had their own ideas about what constitutes a moral way of life. That's sort of why the Commandments were supposedly concocted, because clearly nobody before Charlton Heston's time managed to figure out that murder wasn't really a nice thing to do. No, I don't pretend that happened either, but the point still remains.
As to the morality thing, echoing pablo's comments: wouldn't it be useful if any supposed supernatural outside agency instructing on our morals at least made sure that the instructions are consistent? Yet different cultures throughout history have had their own ideas about what constitutes a moral way of life. That's sort of why the Commandments were supposedly concocted, because clearly nobody before Charlton Heston's time managed to figure out that murder wasn't really a nice thing to do. No, I don't pretend that happened either, but the point still remains.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
