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Richard Dawkins: God, Truth & Death

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CHAPTER

The Lightness of Being

I can tell a lot of the time if someone is religious, because there's a lightness about them. That kind of existential dread which hangs off atheists and maybe I'm projecting somewhat, they don't seem to have. An atheist deathbed conversion is not a thing that's unheard of. How do you have that lightness? Often it's a myth. We're not allowed the privilege that a dog has of being taken to the vet and put painlessly to sleep. Maybe I should identify as a dog. If I'm not allowed to go to the vets and ask to be put down or if the vet refuses to put me down, I could sue him for misspecies in

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