Richard Dawkins
"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."
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"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
"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."
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
"Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?"