The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Atheism and My Idea of God

This is quite informative. The atheists’ biggest problem, though, is their smug attitude towards objective truth.

Personally, I don’t care mush for traditional theism. I don’t believe there is a supernatural being in that sense. I do, however, believe that humankind is better off by holding fictional morality for true, which, I would say, is God to me.

Perhaps I’m overly cynical—it has been noted—and pessimistic about the world, but I think that there is no such thing as morality and decent behaviour without the belief in some supreme power. For many years, I tried to defend such a power without reference to God, but I failed. Without God—or some other form of fictional power—there would be nothing preventing us from harming people and behave as monsters. The idea of God, to me, is therefore one of decent behaviour, not of anthropomorphic divinity.

(Video via Humanistbloggen.)