The Importance of God in Atheism

To believe then that god does not exist and that there is thus no moral accountability would be, quite literally, de moralizing. By demoralization, i mean a deterioration of moral motivation. It's hard to do the right thing when it conflicts with your own self interest. And it's hard to resist temptation to do wrong when desire is strong. The absence of moral accountability from a philosophy of atheism makes an epic of compassion and self sacrifice a hollow abstraction. God is therefore vitally necessary for morality. Though the conclusion is a painful one, these thinkers believe that honesty compels them to face it squarely.