If you think the qualities are important I am the hard core Christian. I don't kill, steal, lie, commit adultery, and try to avoid something that hurts or harms me as well as others. I try to generate love, compassion, good will for others. I try to help people out and want to see happiness in their face. Isn't this what Jesus wanted from his disciple? So I am his disciple, so I am a Christian. But what if I don't believe in god, the unseen power who governs everything? Will he punish me for not believing on him? If so I refuse to have faith on such stubborn superpower, let me protest against him from the hell :). Hey come on, if I follow the traffic rule, a traffic police can't punish me even if I misbehave him. I am following his (god's) entire rules and he is punishing me just because I don't believe him because I haven't seen him. He is worst than the traffic Hwaldaar, he is not a supreme power. I refuse to be Christian, let me remain something else. But another story, you commit sexual misconduct, kill, steal, lies and do something that harms you and others. Out of these rules follow some but break some, but you strongly believe in god, do you think that you will be rewarded heaven for that? If your answer is yes, let me not be a Christian; that is injustice for me. So, the important thing is not the belief, it's not the faith that is important. Important things are laws that we have to follow. These laws are imposed by the nature. Not to kill, not to steal, not to have sexual misconduct, not to lie, not to get intoxicated, not to do anything harmful to oneself and harmful to others is important. These are laws. These are important. These laws are named differently in different society, Hindus say them as "Yema Niyama", Christian said them as "ten commandments" , Buddhist call them "Pancha Sila", Jain "Anu Barta" and so on. You can give them any name. These laws are basic laws. They are for all the times. You can not say that these rules were valid only in those old days for those old people. Don't say that these are the rules for conservative people not for modern like us. If you break these rules you are bound to suffer, you are bound to be restless. You don't know what the happiness is, that's why you don't know what the suffering is, because you have no right reference to compare. If you try to embrace these rules, then you will feel how difficult it is. It is really difficult to live moral life, but without moral life is suffering. So don't say these rules doesn't work this time as if you have already tested them, practiced them and mastered them. These moral rules are basic rules of nature or for some of you laws of supreme, unseen power. Whoever, atheists or believers all are bounded by these rules, follow them get peaceful life, break them restless life. Restless is bound to come if you don't follow these laws......search for some other means like TV, game, computer, sex, music etc to divert your attention from the restlessness. Instead of Christian; non-Christian, Hindu; non-Hindu, Muslim; non-Muslim, Jain; non-Jain, Buddhist; non-Buddhist, believers; non-believers, I divide people into two categories, FOLLOWERS and NON-FOLLOWRS of the natural laws, the disciplines, the moral values, which are foundation stones of every religions. Those who fight for religion, they are non-followers, because for the followers all the religions have same laws. Amine