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Your greatest strength, Ray, and possibly your only strength, is in pretending that you don't understand simple things.
It doesn’t matter what you believe; all that matters is why you believe it, and how accurate you can show your beliefs to be.
A Letter to a Certain Christian (2013)
Theism is nothing more than a bunch of fables made up by superstitious primitives. Having a doctorate in theology is consequently not significantly different than having a PhD in Mother Goose.
Philosophistry (2017)
When people use religion as their only reason for whatever laws they want to impose of people or on other things, these are always mostly unjust.
Who would want to be trapped in a house with an indomitable telepathic despot and have to guard your thoughts –or be voluntarily mindless- and endure that existence forever and ever?
The truth is what the facts are, and that’s what we should teach.
Orwellian Legislative Duplicity on HB 1485 (2017)
The Bible describes only the worst that a marriage can be, but never defines what a marriage should be.
Biblical Family Values (2015)
To the best of my understanding, bigotry, intolerance and hatred are not values, but then faith isn't a virtue either.
Biblical Family Values (2015)
The people who are overtly bigoted against gays now are often the same people who were openly bigoted against blacks years ago.
Republican Theocracy (2012)
Not everything that is big and dead is a dinosaur.
Pterosaurs are Terrible Lizards (2013)
You're an ape for the exact same reason that you are a mammal.
Reason Rally Ra Rant (2012)
If you can’t give me any reason to believe you, then I have no reason to believe you. Come back when you can show me you’ve got something to consider.
Anti-theist Answers to Christian Questions (2015)
The pledges come from a believers’ standpoint. The country needs to earn the support of its citizenry. You can’t extort it. You can’t get people indoctrinated by always saying every morning before class where they’ll never question what you’ll do.
Some people criticize philosophy as pointless navel-gazing. But there is a lot more to it than just that. There’s also a lot of beard-stroking: and to my experience, quite a lot of arrogant condescension too.
Philosophistry (2017)
Do you know the penalty for blasphemy? It's death, just as it always is whenever religion is threatened, especially the Abrahamic religions. Violence is only the answer for those who don't understand the question, and religion is a misunderstanding of everything.
Republican Theocracy (2012)
Every feature that is known to exist in every bird universally accepted as such is also found on dinosaurs: four-chambered heart, fused caudal vertebrae, gastroliths, even the avian respiratory system have all been found on fossil theropods, especially dromaeosaurs and maniraptors. You can distinguish birds among dinosaurs, but it is no longer possible to distinguish birds from dinosaurs.
Geerup's Terrible Lizard Classification (2009)
So do something that would have worked anyway whether God is real or not, and then simply assume that it worked because God is real. Of course. That’s religious logic for you.
The Cow (2016)
There is no such thing as a religious theory, just like science doesn’t promote “non-religious doctrines” either. A doctrine is a set of taught beliefs. Science is an investigation; not a matter of belief.
Orwellian Legislative Duplicity on HB 1485 (2017)
The evidence of evolution, and even the event of evolution itself, –the proof of it- are both directly observed, and testable, and demonstrably factual. But religious beliefs are none of the above and never have been; they’re assumed on faith. Whether or not these beliefs turn out to be correct, they are asserted as true without justification in the form of evidence.
Understand that sexual orientation is not a matter of choice, but your religion is. You're free to believe in any irrational idiocy that makes you happy, but your religion is an uninformed opinion, not an ethnicity, and should have no excuse for special exemptions from the law.
Biblical Family Values (2015)