Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of J…

Richard Dawkins
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Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction). ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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