Richard Dawkins's Quote - Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack a

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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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The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. – Richard Dawkins

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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins

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The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins

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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson

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My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. – Lionel Blue

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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. – Emily Carr

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In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays… bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. – John Updike, A Month of Sundays, 1975

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