Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks som…

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Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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