Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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My 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.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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