There is no god

I do not believe in god, and while I’ll concede there are some aspects to organised religion that can do good, on the whole I don’t think religion is a good thing. I’ve felt this way for a long time now, and when I’ve mentioned my non-belief to believers in the past, the discussion usually ends up at a similar place, with a familiar question. If you don’t believe in God, or anything particularly spiritual, where do you get your morality from? And looking at it from the point of view of a believer, it’s a fair question. I mean, if there isn’t a big supernatural rulebook floating around somewhere, presumably we’re all just wandering about making up the rules as we go? To which I respond, well, yes, we are. God in my youth I went to church every Sunday as a child, attended Sunday School. I was in the Boys’ Brigade from the age of 5 through to 15. I did Scripture Union classes and went on Scripture Union camps. I knew most of the stories from the build, can still remember most of the…