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Religious Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.
- 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.
- Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
- I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism…
- Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious…
- The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very…
- Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.
- If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and…
- The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward…
- Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological…
- Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."
- We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
- Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
- The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real,…
- If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life.…
- 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…
- I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those…
- It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the…
- I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is…
- Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
- I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who…
- There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
- The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political…
- Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that…
More Religious Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila