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

FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

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

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

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

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