Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

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.

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

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.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

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

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