Check out this great letter to the editor, printed in Michigan's The Daily Telegram. Here are some of my favorite excerpts:

I don’t know about you but I would rather elect someone who holds truth and evidence in high regard than a person unaccountably taking orders from the supernatural.

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The misconception is that religion is required for morality. It isn’t. Humans evolved a sense of morality, apes exhibit some forms of it. In all human cultures murder, rape, and incest are generally regarded as bad. “You scratch my back I scratch yours” is more personally beneficial than being a jerk who terrorizes people. All people, including atheists, can agree on this.

This is the sort of thing those of us who can get away with it should be writing.

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