Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by... →
Paul Davies
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I... →
Jonathan Davis
It was part of your religion to hate the British.
Rebecca Harding Davis
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Richard Dawkins
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion... →
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different.... →
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation... →
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.