For while there are, of course, ethical atheists (Buddhists, for example, or secular humanists, or any such persons who would navigate reality in a way that convention would describe as benevolent), such positions need not be justified ontologically (which, for a religious person, means seeking a cosmic precipitant, or an unmoved mover that exists out-of-time, and who has a will that can be discerned, and that has been revealed), but by determining that, among those lifestyles that do not regard reality as belonging to a supernatural order, the particular one on which they’ve settled offers a happiness that is more sustainable, enduring, and genuine than that of any other.