Teaching values in a deterministic reality

From Time (HT: STR), Sunday School for Atheists,

"When you have kids," says Julie Willey, a design engineer, "you start to notice that your co-workers or friends have church groups to help teach their kids values and to be able to lean on." So every week, Willey, who was raised Buddhist and says she has never believed in God, and her husband pack their four kids into their blue minivan and head to the Humanist Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., for atheist Sunday school.

Ah, yes... teaching values, but having no means to explain where the values came from.

It's funny, in a way, how the abstract cannot be avoided, even by those who deny its existence.