Bears Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most…

— Douglas Preston

“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion…

— Sam Harris

“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that…

— Edward O. Wilson

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and…

— Rose Macaulay

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

— John Stuart Mill

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

— George W. Bush

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

I don't deny that religion is very healthful to a lot of people. And as long as they don't try to convert me, I…

— Susan Jacoby

“Not only is religion thriving, but it is thriving because it helps people to adapt and survive in the world. In his book Darwin's…

— Dinesh D'Souza

I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad…

— Huston Smith

“Religions build theories about the world and then prevent them from being tested. Religions provide nice, appealing, and comforting ideas, and cloak them in…

— Anonymous