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The World Needs Religion Even if it Doesn't Need God

Intelligence Squared

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The Disadvantages of Religion

Alain de Botton: The obvious way to take this debate is to look at all the bad things religions done on one side and all the good things it's done on the other. There are a number of difficulties with this approach, he says. "The main difficulty with this approach though is that it completely misses the point," writes De Botton.

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