Your commitment to reason seems irrational to me, and thus partly faith-based. Otherwise, why wouldn't you have researched a little more before writing your presumptuous comment? You could have looked just a little further into my writings, which I helpfully list on my Medium homepage, to see that I'm an atheist. Instead of doing that, you assert that I clearly don't even hang out with atheists.

That assertion of yours is just tribal. You're emotionally triggered when you come into contact with anything that threatens your tribe and you treat that tribe as sacred, that is, as something fragile that needs to be aggressively defended.

To be sure, you don't explicitly call your tribe "sacred," and you don't explicitly call your attitudes towards science and reason and perhaps human nature (liberty, technological progress, capitalism, etc) "faith-based." But these are sociological, behavioural matters. The truth comes out sometimes in what we do, not just in what we say or what we consciously think. The medium can be the message.

You say your passions are based on facts, not faith. Yet you neglected to gather the facts about the person to whom you addressed your comment. What kind of empirical rationalist is that? That's not how Sherlock Holmes or Data from Star Trek would have acted. So let's not pretend you're something you're not. Let's not pretend that Western secularists are hyper-rational. We're not transhuman yet.