Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious 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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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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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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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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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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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