PZ Myers

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their…

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

Human beings are still fish.

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

“That's the difference between a godly person and an atheist. Our stories are shorter and don't assume the protagonist is an idiot.”

— PZ Myers

Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology…

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

And of course death can't be conquered...but oh, the battle can be glorious.

— PZ Myers

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the…

— PZ Myers

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your…

— PZ Myers

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any…

— PZ Myers

We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by…

— PZ Myers

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of…

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything,…

— PZ Myers

Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes…

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers

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

— PZ Myers