If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your r…

Richard Dawkins
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If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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