Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolu…

Richard Dawkins
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Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.
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