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The joys of life without God

Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer explains why Darwin matters, how believing in God is the same as believing in astrology, and why it doesn't take divine faith to experience something bigger than ourselves.
By Kevin Berger

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006 06:27 AM

    Am I to understand

    that if every Afterlife-believing theist were suddenly convinced that their God or Gods didn't exist, the world would be consumed in an orgy of murder, rapine, and depravity?

    I guess I'm glad so many people are religious then.

    —creepo Read creepo's other letters

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