Quote by Richard Dawkins
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simpl

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. – Richard Dawkins

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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory. – Richard Dawkins

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When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldnt put too much emphasis on the word just. There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine. – Richard Dawkins

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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. – Richard Dawkins

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I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world. – James McGreevey

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Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords? – John Clayton

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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. – Mortimer Adler

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I have come to the conclusion that while a candidates faith matters, whats most important is how he or she applies that faith. – Gary Bauer

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Its good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. – Mark Twain

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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. – Pliny the Elder

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