Atheism doesn't have an upper hand over religion?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Atheism is fashionable?

Well I guess I was an atheist before it was cool. I don't understand what the author means that 'atheism' doesn't have the upper hand over religion. Upper hand in relation to what? Are atheists trying to get the upper hand over religion? I had no idea. Why didn't anyone send me an email?

Pick your favorite non-theistic theory: Rational choice and other economically based accounts hold that people act to benefit themselves in everything they do. From that standpoint, Vander Woude — like the self-sacrificing soldier or firefighter — was a fool who incomprehensibly placed the good of another ahead of his own.

Author needs to read up on his economic theory! RCT has been demolished countless times as an actual predictive theory (read as an example Webber's axiological rationality) and is now considered more or less a heuristic device. And really, atheistic theory? If the author can cite how RCT was such a thing (whatever an 'atheistic' theory is) then more power to him or her.

The conclusion "I'd say that only theism offers an adequate explanation — and that Christianity might do the best job of all." sets alarm bells ringing in my head that the author is a charlatan who doesn't know his rational choice from his guided hand.

Don't buy it? I dare you to come up with something better.

Ok author, how about pretty much all of political science discourse that focuses on something other than maximizing utility at the expense of everything and everyone else (in survival or monetary gains)?

Again, author reveals that he didn't do his research but instead wanted to write a piece that agreed with a foregone conclusion.