It does not matter what you say you believe. It does not matter what you think you believe about matters you have no way of verifying or not. It does not matter what you think the organization and structure of the Universe really is. You will never know and that information is largely irrelevant to your real life.
All that matters is how you behave.
All that matters is your behavior and if your behavior is consistent with your supposed ideals. Do you "practice what you preach?" Are you kind, thoughtful, honest, empathetic, thrifty, diligent, clean, sanitary, and polite? If so, you are a moral person.
Do you lie, cheat, steal, gossip, hoard food, hoard wealth, misrepresent the truth, and ignore the suffering of your fellow humans? Then it does not matter who, or what, you pledge your fealty to -- you are not a moral person.
Behavior is Everything. Belief is nothing.
copyright (c) 2018
William Schaeffer
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