If morality is merely a matter of choice, Hitler could claim to be moral by his own eugenically inspired standards, and all the atheist can do is make a personal choice to live by different lights.
Far be it from me to reinforce my little atheist's early catechism lessons. I must however substitute the word God for energy, but still say that energy always was and always will be.
Also, would not scientific knowledge, based on general ideas drawn from the behavior of things, give us a complete philosophy without requiring the idea of God, leading to " the monstrous systems of atheists" ?
His Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, undertake to prove that there is no such thing as matter at all, and that the world consists of nothing but minds and their ideas.