Onward Atheist Soldiers, Marching As To War

Defenders of religion have sometimes told me that as an atheist I should be careful, because I might throw out the good parts of religion as well as the bad. They have it exactly backward. As an atheist, I can choose what to keep and what to discard from religion – which is just what I do. It’s the believers who are stuck with the whole distasteful mess, though that doesn’t stop them from