I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'
Richard DawkinsIt is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.
Richard DawkinsMy passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
Richard Dawkins