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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. – Richard Dawkins

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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. – Richard Dawkins

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Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know. – Richard Dawkins

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I live and love in Gods peculiar light. – Michelangelo

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in Gods grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. – Martin Luther

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. – Francis Parker Yockey

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