Quote by Richard Dawkins
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth th

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. – Richard Dawkins

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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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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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