Religion Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

— Richard Dawkins

The Bible was written by fallible human beings.

— Richard Dawkins

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

— Richard Dawkins

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

— Richard Dawkins

Religion: Together we can find the cure.

— Richard Dawkins

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

— Richard Dawkins

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

— Richard Dawkins

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

— Richard Dawkins

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to…

— Richard Dawkins

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental…

— Richard Dawkins

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

— Richard Dawkins

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong…

— Richard Dawkins

“Religion can endanger the life of the pious individual, as well as the lives of others.”

— Richard Dawkins

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get…

— Richard Dawkins

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify…

— Richard Dawkins

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

“Religion enjoys astonishing privileges in our societies, privileges denied to almost any other special interest group one can think of-and certainly denied…

— Richard Dawkins

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can…

— Richard Dawkins

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass…

— Richard Dawkins

“Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.”

— Richard Dawkins

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on…

— Richard Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born…

— Richard Dawkins

“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible…

— Richard Dawkins

I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of…

— Richard Dawkins

“The oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, and the clear ancestor of the other two, is Judaism: originally a tribal cult of…

— Richard Dawkins

It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty…

— Richard Dawkins

Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs…

— Richard Dawkins

In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from…

— Richard Dawkins

“Jill had described this kind of religious upbringing as a form of mental abuse, and I returned to the point, as follows:…

— Richard Dawkins

“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does…

— Richard Dawkins

“As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard…

— Richard Dawkins

“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to…

— Richard Dawkins

“Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in…

— Richard Dawkins

“The oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, and the clear ancestor of the other two, is Judaism: originally a tribal cult of…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,…

— Richard Dawkins

“Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the…

— Richard Dawkins