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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.