My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murde…

Richard Dawkins
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My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a they as opposed to a we can be identified at all. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2004). A Devil's Chaplain, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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