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Courage to Be Honest - On Stage with Ricky Gervais

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

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The Importance of Being an Atheist

"If people didn't invent gods, I wouldn't have denied them," he says. "I'm a white, rich, middle-class man, but at least I'm hated for being an atheist." He was told when he sort of started breaking America to not mention he was an atheist. But it's like... 'Imagine not doing something because people hate you because of what you are.' That's my only thing I've got'

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