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Richard Dawkins Quotes: Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
         

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.


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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.



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