Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINSUndisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
RICHARD DAWKINSI am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINSI am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINSA 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!
RICHARD DAWKINSThe time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
RICHARD DAWKINSHow thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
RICHARD DAWKINSAfter sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
RICHARD DAWKINSBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSUnfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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