When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
RICHARD DAWKINSBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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