[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith s…

Richard Dawkins
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[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2006). The Selfish Gene, p.330, Oxford University Press, USA
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[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2006). The Selfish Gene, p.330, Oxford University Press, USA

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