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Quote by Richard Dawkins
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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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all. – Richard Dawkins

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. – Richard Dawkins

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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. – Thomas Browne

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I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet Im still playing places for kids. – Juliana Hatfield

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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, theyre not all growing in their faith, theyre not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior. – Joel Osteen

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