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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is a

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. – Terry Eagleton

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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. – Terry Eagleton

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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. – Terry Eagleton

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. – William Hazlitt

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But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government – yes, a Labour government – is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. – Polly Toynbee

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. – E.M. Forster

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Our national motto is In God we Trust, reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all. – Marco Rubio

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