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

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.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

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 are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

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.