What a bizarre article. The morality of recreational torture is not a matter of factual correctness. Burden of proof is not a concept that makes any sense when there’s a disagreement over morality. You can make arguments for your position and those arguments may involve factual claims which can be proven or disproven, but the underlying morality can’t.
And then it ends with that sudden left turn into denouncing atheists as inherently irrational and evil. WTF?
Congratulations on bringing an argument so terrible that I’m actually more convinced of my position after having read it than I was before.