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

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

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.

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

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