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Absence Quote by PZ Myers

“Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.” quote by PZ Myers — Download Open image

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

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

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

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

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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…

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