Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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 chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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How 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.
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