Quotes from PZ Myers

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

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

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.

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

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