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The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 10, 2016 01:28AM

Jacob’s Quotes

“It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
― Scott Westerfeld

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“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”
― Jacob Bronowski

tags: force, knowledge, nature, power, understanding, wisdom

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“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions, sexism, women, women-and-religion

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“God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: ahteism, free-inquiry, humanism, science

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“...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

tags: humanity, nature

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