I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. - Richard Dawkins
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
- Richard Dawkins
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri… - Richard Dawkins
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri…
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. - Richard Dawkins
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. - Richard Dawkins
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot. - Richard Dawkins
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument. - Richard Dawkins
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. - Richard Dawkins
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. - Richard Dawkins
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. - Richard Dawkins
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
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