Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and br…

Richard Dawkins
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Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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