We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
Interpretation
Atheists often reject not just a belief in gods but also other mythical entities, emphasizing their focus on rational thought.
In this quote, Richard Dawkins humorously points out that atheism is not only a lack of belief in deities but can also extend to skepticism towards other mythical and whimsical entities. By listing 'fairies, teapots, and unicorns' as subjects of disbelief, he suggests that atheists shouldn't feel the need to proclaim their disbelief in every mythical concept, emphasizing a commitment to rational and evidence-based thinking.
In practice
During a debate on belief systems, to highlight the absurdity of unproven beliefs.
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
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