"Serious question for you Jim - who was it that initially taught you what was "good" and what was "evil"?"
Like to think they were family values based on humanism (with a small 'H') - mixed influences
All my immediate family were atheists, their values were a mixture of political and church and humanist
Really extremely mixed up - family story tells of my grandmother throwng a stone at Mosely Rally and hitting the speaker, for which she was arrested.
She was said to have claimed "that stone was guided by the hand of God".
Don't know how 'is ''oliness would have reacted to that.
Thanks to my dad being excommunicated and blacklisted for fighting in Spain, my mother was forced to bring us up alone.
The only time she went to church was when we buried her.
What's the point of your question - please suggest that they could have only learned goodness from the church - that really would make my day!!
Jim Carroll