Catholic Quotes by Richard Dawkins

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

— Richard Dawkins

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

— Richard Dawkins

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

— Richard Dawkins

It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they…

— Richard Dawkins

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to…

— Richard Dawkins

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an…

— Richard Dawkins

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its…

— Richard Dawkins

Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so…

— Richard Dawkins

I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take…

— Richard Dawkins

If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it…

— Richard Dawkins

There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's…

— 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