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In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.
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Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.
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Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.
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One child dead because of superstition is one too many.
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Postmodernism poisons everything.
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Faith is not a virtue, but a character flaw.
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The truth is the truth, regardless of whether it fits your ideological biases.
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Everyone else besides the faithful already knows that religion has nothing useful to say to science.
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As we know, wokeness prizes ideology and narrative over truth.
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This will not abate: wokeness is a one-way ratchet to pure authoritarianism.
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Religion and xenophobia go together like hot dogs and mustard.
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But grifters gotta grift, so we'll always have tarot, psychics, and other scammers.
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We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.
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Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.
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If religion and science get along so well, why are so many scientists nonbelievers?
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Ironically, as the credibility of creationists grows smaller, their voices get louder.
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After all, what new insights has religion produced in the last century?
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The interest I have in believing in something is not a proof that the something exists."
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What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence."
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In the end, a theory that can't be shown to be wrong can never be shown to be right.
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You can find some religions without creationism, but you can't find creationism without religion.
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Blasphemy" and "heresy" are terms of religion, not science.
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So if morality is innate, it's certainly malleable.
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It doesn't trivialize morality to argue that it is based on evolution and secular reason.
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Science has a huge advantage over "other ways of knowing": built-in methods of self-correction.
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Religion has no warrant and no method for decreeing what is and what is not beyond science.
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Medicine can cure; faith cannot.
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