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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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