My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably …

Richard Dawkins
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2016). The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, p.700, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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