Death Is The Ultimate Disappointment

Religion Is Based Upon Blind Faith Supported By No Evidence. Science Is Based Upon Confidence That Results From Evidence - And That Confidence Can Be Modified And/or Reversed By Further Observations And Experimentation. Science Approaches Truth, Closer And Closer, By Hard Dedicated Work. Religion Already Has It All Decided, And It's In The Book. It's Dogma, Unchangeable, And Unaffected By Reality And Whatever Facts We Come Upon In The Real World.

... We In The Usa Have Been Depending On Prayers, Pleading, And Self-abasement To A Deity To Bring Us Magical Advantages, And Have Been Encouraged To Attribute Our Prosperity And General Success Among Nations, To That Sort Of Action. In My Opinion, Hard Work And Dedication To Logic And Reason Ought To Be Recognized As The Reasons For Our Achievements, Not Appeals To A Mythical Friend-in-the-sky. We Got Where We Are In Spite Of, Not Because Of, Those Incantations.

Magicians Are The Most Honest People In The World; They Tell You They're Gonna Fool You, And Then They Do It.

No Evidence Against A Firmly-held Belief, No Matter How Good Or Abundant It May Be, Will Sway The True Believer.

I Am In A Very Peculiar Business: I Travel All Over The World Telling People What They Should Already Know.