Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests - put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again. (PZ Myers)

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests - put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

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