Quote by Terry Eagleton

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Ch

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In this quote, the speaker, possibly Dawkins himself, asserts that Richard Dawkins believes all types of faith to be blind and suggests that children raised in Christian and Muslim households are taught to accept their beliefs uncritically. The speaker highlights their own personal experience, mentioning that even the religious teachers they encountered did not endorse this idea. This quote portrays a disagreement with Dawkins' viewpoint on faith and implies that not everyone within religious institutions promotes blind faith.

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