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If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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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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I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.
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Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
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