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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.