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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

Death, Atheist, Learning

"The Two Types of Faith" by Greg Cootsona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2016.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Richard Dawkins

Death, Spiritual, Religious

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

Richard Dawkins

Death, Different, Dinosaurs

Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.399, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

Richard Dawkins

Death, Religious, Pride

Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.267, Random House

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

Death, Business, Believe

"The Real Romance in the Stars". www.independent.co.uk. December 31, 1995.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Richard Dawkins

Death, Children, Parent

Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Richard Dawkins

Life, Death, Science

1986 The Blind Watchmaker, ch.1.