Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
From Richard Dawkins
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Segregation has no place in the education system.
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
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