Inhumanity is a Dangerous Word to Swing

I must admit, that your implication of dealing with life in a pragmatic and real sense leads to inhumanity. If anything it is the opposite. I would argue that it is religion that causes a great deal of the pain and suffering in the world by creating unrealistic expectations of the world. You spoke earlier of the betrayal of expectation, I would say that the selfsame expectations are foisted upon impressionable people and serve to keep them subservient to nothing more than dogma, withered old white men, and trapped in cycle of thought that isn't logical and punishes people inordinately to the degree of their imagined and real wrongs.

Religion simplifies things to the point of being crass. It makes people swallow pablum about the world, and often opium to dull them to the suffering of others. Man's inhumanity to man has only recently been predicated by people without an expressed religious intent. For most of human history, the atrocities have been committed in the name of God. The Crusades, the Inquisition, Ireland, Bosnia, the Armenian Genocide.

To attribute the non-belief of god with the non-morality of the adherents of the non-belief, is also false. Non-belief of God allows for us to take this world that much more seriously, it could be all we have. Things become that much more valuable, life becomes that much more precious than with some heavenly safety net to catch people with after they knock off. Atheist experience love just as keenly as the rest of you, if not more. They see life in a realistic sense, with measurable means and ends, within a framework of reason that is not held captive by superstition or misplaced beliefs. To imply that this is lesser or inhumane is to call the kettle black.