It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire lifetime. This does not disprove his existence, but it certainly casts great doubt on the historicity of a man who was supposedly widely known to have made a great impact on the world. Someone should have noticed.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?