Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. -Richard Dawkins

 

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


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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Richard Dawkins