Popular Religion Quotes by Richard Dawkins

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• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

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• An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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• One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

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• Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

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

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• My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a they as opposed to a we can be identified at all.

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• Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

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• A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

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