Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINSMy objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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