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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.”
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“If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down.”
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
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“Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”
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“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
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“The God Hypothesis is no longer necessary to explain the origin of the universe or the appearance of complexity or the laws of physics.”
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“Science doesn’t require faith… and when faith conflicts with science, it’s faith that must retreat.”
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“Religion has inflicted untold misery upon the human race.”
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“Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems commendable.”
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“Religion is about hiding and repressing the truth, science is about uncovering and revealing it.”
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“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.”
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“Imagine with John Lennon, a world with no religion.”
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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.” SISTER DEATH ANNIVERSARY QUOTES IN ENGLISH
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“It’s time to stop believing in belief and start believing in reason.”
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“Natural selection is a process that works in ways that are utterly mindless, yet it is the most creative, innovative, and elegant process that we know of.”
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“Science is the poetry of reality, and religion the poetry of myth.”
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“Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody had the smallest idea what was going on.”
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“Only when we cease to hold our beliefs religiously can we treat them as testable hypotheses.”
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“The belief in virgin birth is an example of the power of credulity over evidence.”
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“The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”
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“One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
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“We can no longer allow ourselves the luxury of postponing the debate about the consequences of faith-based belief.”
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“The universe doesn’t owe us meaning; we owe the universe meaning.”