Christianity Quote by Richard Dawkins

“If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.”

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At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

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Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

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“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,…

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

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Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

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