It's a good question.
What I think you are leaving out of your equation is seeing one's attitude towards God as a moral issue. It's like saying, "So, a child molestor drives the speed limit, and a non-child-molestor drives the speed limit -- but you're telling me the first guy's a bad guy anyway?"
Jesus was asked what the greatest moral imperative in the universe is. He said that it is to love God with all one's being. That trumps everything else. Everything either flows from that stance, or is tainted by its absence.
Dan
Dan
I would assume, that 'to love God with all one's being' would actually entail good deeds toward man. I would hope most atheists acted in the same way.
Could you and I be doing the same things, but motivated by different passions? Would your God not be equally honored by my deeds, or would they not be worthy since not motivated by a desire to love God?