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Richard Dawkins on Atheism

born 1941 England

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Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

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

The Root of All Evil? (2006)

I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

Interview with Bill Maher (2013)

Atheists have the intellectual courage to accept reality for what it is: wonderfully and shockingly explicable. As an atheist, you have the moral courage to live to the full the only life you’re ever going to get: to fully inhabit reality, rejoice in it, and do your best finally to leave it better than you found it.

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