I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
Human beings are still fish.
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.
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.
The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.
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.
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world.
Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
In a relationship you have to open yourself up.