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The God Delusion

The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion is a 2006 book by English biologist Richard Dawkins, a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford and former holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.

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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 31 of the hardcover edition and p. 51 of the paperback edition; see also: Dan Barker, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, foreword by Richard Dawkins, 2016

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“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

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“I am not attacking any particular version of God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 57 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

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“[…] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 152 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007