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“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Many religious people find it hard to imagine how, without religion, one can be good, or would even want to be good.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is not something I can decide to do as an act of will. I can decide to go to church and I can decide to recite the Nicene Creed, and I can decide to swear on a stack of bibles that I believe every word inside them. But none of that can make me actually believe it if I don't. Pascal's Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in had better not be of the omniscient kind or he'd see through the deception.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

“The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism