Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life w…

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Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics. ✨ Bertrand Russell (1971). Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire, Allen & Unwin
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