The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing,…

Richard Dawkins
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The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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