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If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious bad man is the worst of all.

C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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