21 Quotes by PZ Myers

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

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.

We live our lives for our life’s sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we’re dead.

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.

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.

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

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

I’m an atheist swimming in a sea of superstition, surrounded by well-meaning, good people with whom I share a culture and similar concerns, and there’s only one thing I can do. I have to laugh. Living.

We shouldn’t be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.