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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.

Richard Dawkins

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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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