If there’s no god at all, i.e., nothing outside the system, then all you’re left with is physics, and “choice” is a meaningless category. IOW, you didn’t choose to say there’s no god, you had to.
“[…] — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
I’ve seen similar bananas in Mario Kart games.