Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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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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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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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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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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