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 DAWKINSBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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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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