If someone's religion is the only thing keeping them from hurting, raping, and killing others, they're not a good person anyway
I had good moral values when I was a religious person and now as non believer I still have good moral values.
When I told her I was an atheist, I had one woman question me "you don't believe in nothin'??" I replied that of course I believed in many things. I was a moral and ethical and good person, I just did not have a religion telling me how to be a good person...
So she thought you had a belief then ?. or is that just a sad reflection of her grasp of the English language.