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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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