Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

Quotes

• “Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his d...”
• “The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind o...”
• “To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobb...”
• “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,...”
• “A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages fro...”
• “Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed th...”
• “Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting ...”
• “Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually ...”
• “Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grie...”
• “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”