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  • But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?

    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.235
  • The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

  • Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  • Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

  • No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

    Atheist   Hatred   Scary  
    Campaign press conference at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, August 27, 1987.
  • Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

    "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
  • God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

    God   Honesty   Editors  
  • The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

    Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

    The Selfish Gene ch. 1 (1976)
  • We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.

    Light   People   Lucky  
    Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)
  • There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

    Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.
  • The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

    George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult
  • The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

    "Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.
  • We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

    Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)
  • 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.

    River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)
  • Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.

    Jesus   Men   Ideas  
    Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”
  • The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

    Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

    Running   Animal   Years  
    "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1995.
  • We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

    "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
  • The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

    God   Country   Father  
    Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”
  • Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

    Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.9, OUP Oxford
  • I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

    Nice   Thinking   People  
    "Divine dispatches: a religion roundup" Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.
  • I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.

  • Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues that I should be surprised if he were right about everything, but it makes for a most stimulating read. The book is in a different league from Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, and deserves much greater success.

    Witty   Book   Issues  
  • A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

    Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

  • This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

    John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”
  • For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

  • There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

    "The Enemies of Reason". Documentary, 2007.
  • Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.254
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