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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack a

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, wheres the harm? September 11th changed all that. – Richard Dawkins

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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but thats because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. – Richard Dawkins

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The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no. – Richard Dawkins

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In Lincolns day a Presidents religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincolns countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. – David Herbert Donald

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all. – John Cumming, “Salvation,” sermon preached before the Queen, 1850 September 22nd

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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldnt. – Jack Dee

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