I agree with your approach to this topic and that's a good point to make. Whatever your beliefs might be, you should take moral responsibility for your actions and for what you personally deem as good or bad.
But I think this is worth taking it a step further and noticing that there is no good reason to believe in god at all (especially keeping in mind how ill-defined of a concept that is) and that we need to shed the idea that god is a meaningful thing to be thinking about. We should talk about what we see as moral and immoral and why and drop god from the conversation completely.
Hi Dave - I totally hear you! I think that we have to be careful in how we approach that notion when we don't believe in God. We must remember that our fellow human mostly does believe in God and a higher being in general. I would love it if we moved towards the concept of moral versus immoral faster.
This of course takes time, but is a feasible to happen within our lifetimes. Thank you for your comment!
There are indeed many people who still believe in some form of a deity, but I'm happy to see that number slowly but surely declining. I think it's important to put the notion that you don't need to believe in unreasonable assertion to be moral out there without hesitation.
It's also important to notice that saying you don't believe in a god shouldn't have to be approached with more diplomacy than saying you do. If a religious person is not expected to be apologetic about proselytizing, neither should I be expected to be overly diplomatic to religious people being sensitive about me not believing in a god and finding belief in a god unreasonable and often harmful.