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

Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

Human beings are still fish.

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

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

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor