Quotes by PZ Myers

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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.

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Knives

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.

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Surrender

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery – not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Causes

Disease

Misery

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

Claims

Real

World

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

Absence

Excuse

Tangible

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

Addresses

Favors

Silence

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

Fashion

Hypothesis

Practicals

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.

Country

Fate

Unique

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

Clever

Creating

People

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

Earth

Nobility

Worms

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Quotes by PZ Myers

PZ Myers

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.

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.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery – not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

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

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

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

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

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

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

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