Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natu…

Christopher Hitchens
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Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell. ✨ Christopher Hitchens (2012). Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd
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