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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christia

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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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. – Terry Eagleton

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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. – Terry Eagleton

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The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. – Ron Suskind

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? – John Calvin

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Its not a faith in technology. Its faith in people. – Steve Jobs

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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. – Doug Larson

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