Quote by Richard Dawkins
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins

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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. – Richard Dawkins

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. – Richard Dawkins

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Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos. – I.A. Richards (1893–1979)

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. – Thom Gunn

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