Interesting. I found that the advantage of atheists, the real ones like Rand, not the hysterics wannabes like leftists who cry all the time against God for goodies while they are perfectly happy without a consciousness in their mom basement, is that they do attempt to cut off genuinely the umbilical chord from God, as in your father’s house is his house and your house is your house you have to recreate. It is helpful to prevent the kind of fusional behavior some God worshipers have.
Sometimes one sees a way of respecting God in the ideas and errings of those who dismiss Him and are factually without Him because they are so intelligent.