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“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“If you don't understand how something
works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't
know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand
how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis
a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go
to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.”
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't
know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand
how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis
a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go
to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.”
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
“Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it?”
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it?”
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
“Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.”
― The Trumpet of the Swan
― The Trumpet of the Swan
“If you are religious at all it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan, you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
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