Atheist Richard Dawkins Admits that Without God, the World Would Be Less Moral: 'I Hate That Idea ... I Want to Believe That Humans Are Better Than That'

Will Maule : Oct 29, 2019
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"Dawkins has spent his life fighting against God (the God he doesn't believe even exists), but still recognizes that atheism (the worldview religion of Richard Dawkins) doesn't provide the foundation for morality." -Ken Ham, Creation Museum, Ark Encounter

[Faithwire.com] Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous atheist, has admitted that eliminating God from the public consciousness would pose huge problems. (Image credit: Chris Keane-Reuters /via The Times)

Speaking to British paper The Times, Dawkins insisted that if religion were to be abolished, it would "give people a license to do really bad things."

Expanding on his point, the Oxford University fellow said that, without the presence of a higher being, "people may feel free to do bad things because they feel God is no longer watching them."

Reverting to his sharp rhetoric on religion, Dawkins warned that people would feel entitled to do what they like because they no longer need to obey a "divine spy camera in the sky reading their every thought,"—a description he often uses for an omnipresent God... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Click here to read about the experiment that brought Dawkins to this conclusion.