"Jesus was not content to derive his ethics……" — Richard Dawkins
"Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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