We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.
Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.
Human beings are still fish.
And of course death can't be conquered...but oh, the battle can be glorious.
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.