When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human".
Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.
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.
You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling appeared before Congress. Do you think they even bothered swearing him in? Now he is denying he lied to Congress last week. He's saying it was just the liquor talking.
The Democrat Party today is not enamored of Bill Clinton. They may not even be enamored of Hillary [Clinton]. But the things that jazzed Democrats back in the nineties are nowhere near the things that jazz the Democrats of today.
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.