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Richard Dawkins Quotes: I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.
         

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.


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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.



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Science is the poetry of reality.



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