

“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion

“I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
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