The Quotable Dr Richard Dawkins

December 15th, 2009, by Mike Tidmus

“It is not particularly remarkable that a mountebank like Oral Roberts should succeed in conning his followers out of their money. As P T Barnum observed, there’s a sucker born every minute. If people are that stupid and choose to hand over their money to an obvious fake, that is their privilege. What should concern the rest of us is that the scams pulled off by well-heeled charlatans like Roberts are tax free.”

— Dr Richard Dawkins, eminent biologist, author and non-believer, on the death
of faith-biased con artist and anti-gay bigot Oral Roberts,
from Well-heeled, tax-exempt charlatan

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