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Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

Richard Dawkins

Culture, Belief, Evolution

Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

Richard Dawkins

Attitude, Religion, Culture

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

Religion, Survival, Culture

Richard Dawkins (1989). “The Selfish Gene”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

Richard Dawkins

World, Details, Culture

Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

Richard Dawkins

Numbers, Atheism, Culture

Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt