If I had to choose between religious fundamentalism and humanistic atheism, I would choose the latter in a heartbeat.
I follow the Sermon on the Mount, not because I believe it will save my soul, but because it is for me a reliable path to love.
Jesus taught love, not Christian theology. As far as I’m concerned everyone who travels the path of compassion is a member of the same church, temple, mosque or humanist community.
If I found, even at heaven’s gate, that. God is as petty and hateful as some religious fundamentalists say, I would gladly choose an eternity of punishment for being kind, over an eternity of reward for selling out my human family.