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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

Richard Dawkins
Atheism, Nonsense, Ends
Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.237, Random House

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

Richard Dawkins
Religion, Atheism, Wish

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

Richard Dawkins
Sex, Religion, Atheism

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

Richard Dawkins
Thinking, Atheism, Problem

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Richard Dawkins
Ignorant, Religion, Atheism
"Creationism: God’s gift to the ignorant" by Richard Dawkins, The Times (London), May 21, 2005.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

Richard Dawkins
Doubt, Atheism, Hats

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Richard Dawkins
Evil, Religion, Atheism
Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

Richard Dawkins
Men, Atheism, World
"Religion's misguided missiles" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

Richard Dawkins
Believe, Religion, Atheism

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

Richard Dawkins
Atheism, Young, Ancestor

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

Richard Dawkins
Judging, Religion, Atheism
Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

Richard Dawkins
Atheist, Religion, Atheism

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

Richard Dawkins
Omnipotence, Mind, Atheism
Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

Richard Dawkins
Design, Religion, Atheism
Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

Richard Dawkins
Thinking, Religion, Atheism

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

Richard Dawkins
Atheist, Religion, Atheism
Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Richard Dawkins
Mind, Atheism, Viruses
Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Richard Dawkins
Feelings, Understanding, Atheism

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Richard Dawkins
Atheism, Pantheism, Deism
Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

Richard Dawkins
Gun, Atheism, Littering
Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.183, Random House

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
Atheism, Looks, Different

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Richard Dawkins
Suffering, Atheism, Kind
Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

Richard Dawkins
Successful, Mind, Atheism
Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins
Religion, Atheism, Natural

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Richard Dawkins
People, Religion, Atheism
Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene”, p.330, Oxford University Press, USA