There r two Camps; choose urs..

There are two camps; the God camp and the no-God camp. Pitfalls lie in both camps. It is the innate humanity that makes a difference whether one is religious or otherwise. Triumphant are those who purify and ennoble their humanity and dignify their character. The secularists may have their own motivation but a definite vantage for a religious mind is the understanding that he is ultimately answerable to the creator for his deeds and that his wrongdoings will have repercussions. But right there looms a pitfall of acting like God forgetting that all, irrespective of creed, color or race, are from a single pair of male and female. The path of piety and godliness goes from humanity. Bypassing that is indeed a cancerous phenomenon for the innate dignity of human soul. The edge for the non-religious is the pitfall of the religious and vantage of religious is the pitfall for the atheists which in the long run is by far a greater risk to fall in.

وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا  قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ زَكَّاهَا  وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنْ دَسَّاهَا 

 And the soul bears witness and the perfection given to it. Then [God] inspired it with its evil and its good that he succeeded who purified it and he failed who corrupted it. (91:7-10)

وَمَنْ يَأْتِهِ مُؤْمِنًا قَدْ عَمِلَ الصَّالِحَاتِ فَأُوْلَئِكَ لَهُمُ الدَّرَجَاتُ الْعُلَى  جَنَّاتُ عَدْنٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا وَذَلِكَ جَزَاء مَن تَزَكَّى 

And he who comes before Him as a believer having done righteous deeds, exalted ranks are for such people, evergreen gardens beneath which streams flow. They shall abide therein forever and this shall be the reward of those that keep themselves pure. (20:75-76)