The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

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

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.

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.

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.