Dawkins' God Quotes

“The God Delusion is a rather disorganized collage of arguments and pastiche of assertions which cannot be said to advance those ideas or enhance their critical edge, but rather harnesses them in the service of the advocacy of atheism.”
― Alister McGrath, Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion

“The phrase is often misquoted, and more often it is supposed to crystallize an irrational prejudice in his mind, as if he scorned and spurned the intelligence in religion – a supposition which will not survive any first-hand acquaintance with [his] writings.”48”
― Alister E. McGrath, Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion

“Tertullian, a Roman theologian based in the North African city of Carthage, never wrote the words “it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd.” This garbled misquotation is often attributed to him in secondary writings. But it is a misreading, and has been known to be such for some time.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion

“Now perhaps Dawkins is too busy writing books against religion to allow him time to read works of religion. On the rare occasions when he cites classic theologians, he tends to do so at second hand, often with alarming results. For example, Dawkins singles out the early Christian writer Tertullian (c. 160–c. 225) for particularly acerbic comment, on account of two quotations from his writings: “It is certain because it is impossible”; and “it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd.”45 Dawkins has little time for such nonsense. “That way madness lies.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion

“Indeed, the Christian tradition is so consistent on this matter that it is difficult to understand where Dawkins has got the idea of faith as “blind trust” from. Even a superficial reading of the works of leading Christian philosophers such as Richard Swinburne (Oxford University), Nicolas Wolterstorff (Yale University), and Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame), or even popular writers such as C. S. Lewis,43 would reveal their passionate commitment to the question of how one can make “warranted,” “evidenced,” or “coherent” statements concerning God.44 There is no question of “blind trust.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion

“perfectly acceptable approach, according to Wittgenstein, is to take trouble to define the particular sense in which a word should be understood, in order to avoid confusion”
― Alister E. McGrath, Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion