"If God wanted to forgive our sins, why……" — Richard Dawkins
"If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?"
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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