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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

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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Life Reality Religion
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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Assumption Faith God Life Live
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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Believe Faith Justify People Religious
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Divine Elegance Ideas Reality Science Universe
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Chicken Egg Revolution Science
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Crime Victim
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Animal Evidence Evolution Force Science Survival
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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Believe Delusion Galaxy God Sleep Thinking
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Atheist Freedom Happiness Live Proper
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window

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