Charlie, I am not "proud" to be an atheist. I simply am one. But I have another form of faith that is as strong as yours, though it doesn't require me to postulate the existence of a divine entity. My faith gives me a moral sense that is at least as worthy as the one you get from coupling your moral precepts to a set of stories and myths that reinforce them for you. To say that moral precepts did not arise from the ocean's muck is not to say that the only other possibility is that there is an invisible being who said "let it be." You believe in God, who gave us morality. I simply believe in morality. I think eliminating the middle man is more sensible and gets us to the exact same place.
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