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Faith Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- [It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
- Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...
- Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
- Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
- The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
- It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think…
- Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
- Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have…
- Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
- There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.
- Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's…
- The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to…
- 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…
- The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
- If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves…
- At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
- Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have…
- Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
- 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…
- Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a…
- The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison.…
- If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring…
- Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
- In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their…
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- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
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