Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things too.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.