A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.