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

We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.