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Yousef Al-Khattab: When you take the women and dress them like whores, on the street... Richard Dawkins: I don't dress women, they dress themselves... Yousef Al-Khattab: But you allow it as a norm, to let the women go on the street dressed like this. What's going on with your society?

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  1. One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
  2. You've just said a very revealing thing. Are you telling me that the only reason you don't steal and rape and murder is that you're frighte…
  3. Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
  4. We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
  5. I want to examine that dangerous thing that's common to Judaism and Christianity as well: the process of non-thinking called faith.
  6. Oh, but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic?! So Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a …
  7. What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding.
  8. Without religion you have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes…

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