"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.“

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"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

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"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

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"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."

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"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

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"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that."

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"There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"

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