Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.