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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Richard Dawkins
Faith, Definitions, Belief

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

Richard Dawkins
Faith, Atheist, Thinking

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.

Richard Dawkins
Faith, Atheist, Thinking
Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

Richard Dawkins
Faith, Religious, Liberty
Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Richard Dawkins
Faith, Belief, Evidence