Here’s the real interesting things about your statement.

Atheists live the most ethical lives, are the most generous, have the least people per capital in jail, have the lowest criminal rate, the longest lasting marriages, the highest education, and the highest intelligence.

So, sorry, no, you’ve been misinformed. If the only reason you can be ‘good’ is because you think there is something more, then you are not good at all.

You interpreted a lack of belief in god as materialism. Please explain how you arrived at that conclusion. Also, explain to me why accepting the tremendous beauty of this earth, of wanting to improve it through preserving its eco-system is a base impulse. That simply does not equate.

What is the point of compassion? That it helps others?

Why would I buy a bigger house or a car? I gave up my used car in San Diego in 2010. I don’t own a house. All my possessions fit into 5 suitcases. My kitchen consists of one small pot, a set of cutlery, a plate, a cup, etc. Nothing extra. I have no TV or lounge suite or washing machine for laundry or anything like that.

The point of my life is not acquiring material things — it is service to humanity. Surely you must realize that everything I write is, in one way or another, about ethical systems. How does the fact that I’m an atheist make me the same as all these prosperity churches where money is the bottom line and they’re all preaching the prosperity Gospel. I think you need to take a good, hard, long look at exactly who is materialistic.

How am I in any way living my life as a hedonistic orgy? I probably last went to a party 40 years ago, and I have probably been to two or three parties in my life. I don’t’ recall my late father being hedonistic either. In fact, I don’t know any hedonistic people, and I associate only with atheists.

If you don’t believe there are good people out there, then that is on you. It says more about who you are than about those of us who actually do good things for no other reason than it is the right thing to do.

In fact, reading further, you say “, but I’m not enough of a saint to live compassionately and altruistically if there is no greater benefit or purpose to these activities which objectively take from my resources.”

Exactly. Please don’t project your lack of generosity of spirit towards others onto those of us who are not like you.

No, your understanding of who you are is NOT rooted in quantum mechanics. Go ask an actual physicist. One person wrote a book about it, twisted the entire thing, and now a whole lot of people out there actually believe somehow that science supports the existence of some life force etc. No, it actually does not. There is absolutely not a single scientific thing about your belief system.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20210301-how-physics-could-prove-god-exists