Richard Dawkins Quotes About Revelations

Quotes about: Revelations

• People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Love, Kindness, Real

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Children, Work Out

  "Richard Dawkins's backwards logic over atheist schooling" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2010.

• Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

• Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Mass Destruction, Voice

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reason, Revelations, Components

  Source: inters.org

• What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the particular historical religions that people happen to have dreamed up.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, People, Historical

  Source: inters.org

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