Reply #1: When religious

[YankeyMCC]

people talk about how "lack or loss of moral foundation" is destroying America the assumption is that this moral foundation must come from faith. Be it christian or muslim or whatever.

Part of what we have to do is make it clear there are other basis for a moral system.

I don't think I have an answer to your question but somehow we have to talk about how dogmatic belief in myths is ruining, or at least threatening, the moral foundation of the nation. Somehow show how when someone takes a myth contradicted by facts as absolute truth that it gets in the way of things like equality, freedom of speech and trade, tolerance, etc...

This certainly doesn't have to be an attack against the belief in god, or even some sorts of spirituality. This is just a personal opinion but I suspect many, perhaps most, atheists would not find it hard to get along with pagans and buddists. We do need to be clear about the problem - dogmatic and fundamentalist applications of religions that actively get in the way of progress.