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For context, I'm a religious person myself, a Unitarian Christian.
Not all religions are about worshiping a single deity. Shinto, for example, has no supreme being and worships a variety of lesser gods, Buddhism is about spiritual self-fulfillment and has no gods whatsoever, Confucianism is essentially a moral, ethical, and philosphical code, Wicca is about connecting to nature through neo-Pagan rites, etc.
The "Old man in the sky" conception of God is one that's taken from artistic and pop culture representations of the Christian God, and isn't actually a core Christian concept, though many Christians believe this due to being one hour a week worshippers.
Nobody has a monopoly on morality. Regardless of where the idea originates, a person who doesn't steal from others is behaving in a moral way. Whether that comes from a pragmatic analysis of costs and benefits, a belief in the Ten Commandments, or the Confucian code of ethics, it's a moral belief and a moral action.
Christians, theists, deists, non-theists, polytheists, there is no one group that has a monopoly on morals or ethics. There are many paths to arrive at the same place.
What I think of you as a person is going to depend on how you treat me, yourself, and others, on the morality that is demonstrated by your actions and not a whit by the origin of that morality.
No group is inherently superior to any other simply based on status.
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I'm against ending blackness. I believe that everyone has a right to be black, it's a choice, and I support that.
~Steven Colbert
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