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

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

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.

And of course death can't be conquered...but oh, the battle can be glorious.

Human beings are still fish.

Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.