"The point I was trying to make, is that once you sell the pass about faith, once you agree that faith doesn't have to be justified, then the vast majority of people who have faith are never going to do anything bad, that's fine.
But a few are going to do very violent things and if you then try to challenge, and "Why do you do that? How could you go and make yourself into a suicide bomb? How could you kill like that," they say, "That's my faith you mustn't question that."
They've been taught that, they've been taught to respect faith by moderate teachers. And that's the only point I'm making."
---Richard Dawkins, interview on BBC HardTalk, August 05, 2007,
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