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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.