I don't think Larry Wall said atheists are amoral. Only that there are two places where human morality can well from, religion and hence by influence, culture -- or from the selfish gene. He does not state that one or the other is amoral, but rather, he would rather not be slaved to the selfish gene. I think the selfish gene concept comes from Dawkins, in any case, having a morality based out of religion is more "human." The only flaw in my argument is that I haven't decided whether culture originates from the selfish gene entirely, in which case, you could just as easily say that religion itself is encoded in the selfish gene.

Calvin