You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.