There’s no objective evidence for an afterlife, and anecdotal reports of heaven cannot be distinguished from wishful thinking, self-delusion, and the… - James Morrow

Love Jesus, embrace your inner storm trooper, and leave the planet a more miserable place than you found it—that's Christian nihilism in a nutshell," said Whip Hemsoth. "If there's a better path to fulfilling your purpose and engorging your wedding member, I haven't found it.

That maxim, it’s not an argument against atheism—it’s an argument against foxholes.

Are we innately aggressive?" asked Aquinas. "Was the nuclear predicament symptomatic of a more profound depravity? Nobody knows. But if this is so—and I suspect that it is—then the responsibility for what we are pleased to call our inhumanity still rests squarely in our blood-soaked hands. The killer-ape hypothesis does not specify a fate—it lays out an agenda. Beware, the fable warns. Caution. Trouble ahead. Genocidal weapons in the hands of creatures who are bored by peace."
"I think I'm going to throw up," said Brat.
"But the fable went unheeded. And the weapons, unchecked. And then, one cold Christmas season, death came to an admirable species—a species that wrote symphonies and sired Leonardo da Vinci and would have gone to the stars. It did not have to be this way. Three virtues only were needed—creative diplomacy, technical ingenuity, and moral outrage. But the greatest of these is moral outrage.