“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.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Richard Dawkins Quotes
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.
Richard Dawkins 
76% of people like this quote
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
74% of people like this quote
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Richard Dawkins
74% of people like this quote