Quote #77
You've just said a very revealing thing. Are you telling me that the only reason you don't steal and rape and murder is that you're frightened of God?
More from Richard Dawkins
- Yousef Al-Khattab: When you take the women and dress them like whores, on the street... Richard Dawkins: I don't dress women, they dress th…
- We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
- Oh, but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic?! So Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a …
- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- Without religion you have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes…
- I want to examine that dangerous thing that's common to Judaism and Christianity as well: the process of non-thinking called faith.
- Thus the creationist's favourite question 'What is the use of half an eye?' Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. H…