That’s the difference between a godly person and an atheist. Our stories are shorter and don’t assume the protagonist is an idiot.

Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.

What religion has always done is pander to biases, achieving success not by challenging people with something new but by reinforcing what they already believe, no matter how wrong it is. By contrast, science shines by breaking the shackles of our preconceptions and letting us work with what really is. The.

We shouldn’t be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.

I’m an atheist swimming in a sea of superstition, surrounded by well-meaning, good people with whom I share a culture and similar concerns, and there’s only one thing I can do. I have to laugh. Living.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

It’s amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn’t do the things that they all do anyway.

If you’ve got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs – rethinking the world isn’t an option.

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.

We live our lives for our life’s sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we’re dead.