Richard Dawkins

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.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

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.

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

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.