Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. …

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Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2009). The God Delusion, p.328, Random House
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