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Originally Posted by TGS
But do you live you life as though there isn't a god or as though there is? If it's the former then, for all practical purposes, you are asserting that there isn't a god, (with, of course, the proviso, that you may turn out to be wrong. In that sense your "knowledge" that there isn't a god is contingent, just like all other empirical knowledge).
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You are conflating religious beliefs with morals. That's very much a Judeo-Christian viewpoint. The Greek philosphers taught how to live a good life, but in their minds it had nothing whatsoever to do with religion. One can wish to live a good life (or otherwise of course) entirely without believing in supernatural beings, or in an afterlife. And conversely, there are many religions whose gods have not the slightest interest in imposing moral standards upon humanity.