Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. – Richard Dawkins
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality – youre told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. – Richard Dawkins
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you cant prove that there arent any, so shouldnt we be agnostic with respect to fairies? – Richard Dawkins
Im not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. – Richard Dawkins
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. – Charles Hodge