Religious people have you ever tried praying?

[jstrodel]

Not all atheists fall into the above category, but a lot do. I used to be an atheist. I've known plenty of them. I think a compassionate approach to advocacy for the atheist position is to realize that you are not only selling people an idea of more pure approach to thinking about the world, you are telling them that they are free to do whatever they want, or at least severely weakening any theological distance between them and carnality.