[lelio]

Conservatives making this claim betray misunderstanding of how secularism insulates even smart people from reality.

What on earth does that mean? What reality are atheists avoiding?

[little jeremiah]

The reality that they will die and they don't know what will happen afterwards. Atheists like to think that at death they cease to exist. That is not true, and because even avowed, dedicated, very faithful atheists still have nagging doubts about the certitude of the cessation of their existence with the death of the body, they try to silence all religious expression around them.

Atheism and the secularism that stems from it will be the ruination of western civilization if not checked. There is no doubt about this. Moral absolutes are essentially the same in every world religion. This is not a sectarian issue. It is a theism issue.

As a country and civilization, we reject religion and the moral absolutes it teaches as our foundation with great peril and risk. The only alternative to accepting these universal moral absolutes is "every man for himself". "What I think is true for me, and what you think is true for me". Moral relativism. And you know where that quickly leads?

Dog eat dog. The bigger, stronger dog dictates to the smaller or less numerous or powerful dogs. That's all.

[RightWingAtheist]

What reality are atheists avoiding?

Subjective reality :-)