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 DAWKINSFaith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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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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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. 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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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