Human beings are still fish.

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

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

Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

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

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

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