PZ Myers quotes
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“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.”
-- PZ MyersSource : Profile at Freedom from Religion Foundation, ffrf.org.
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“religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor”
-- PZ MyersSource : PZ Myers (2013). “The Happy Atheist”, p.88, Vintage
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“Human beings are still fish.”
-- PZ MyersSource : YouTube Chanel "Living Waters"/ "Evolution vs. God", www.youtube.com. August 6, 2013.
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“It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.”
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“We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.”
-- PZ MyersSource : "Theology is a deceitful strategy" by PZ Myers, freethoughtblogs.com. July 1, 2008.
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“Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.”
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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.”
-- PZ MyersSource : "Atheism ≠ Fascism". freethoughtblogs.com. June 12, 2011.
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“Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.”
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“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.”
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“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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“Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.”
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“The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion”
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“Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.”
-- PZ MyersSource : Source: www.christianpost.com
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“Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.”
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“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.”
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“Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.”
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“We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.”
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“We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.”
-- PZ Myers
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