Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
From Richard Dawkins
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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