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Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.
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I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.
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I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.
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I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
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