I also felt that paragraph didn’t hit the mark. All value systems apply rationality to a set of assumptions. Religion starts from the assumption “what is in our

I also felt that paragraph didn’t hit the mark. All value systems apply rationality to a set of assumptions. Religion starts from the assumption “what is in our holy writing is true” and then applies logic to derive a complete value system. In that sense religious and atheist value systems only differ by their priors, not their use of rationality.