Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. ✨ R…

Richard Dawkins
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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2017). Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist, p.237, Random House
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