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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThings exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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 total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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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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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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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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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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