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"Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus"

— Akhenaten

-1400–-1335

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— William Cobbett

Politics1763–1835

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"Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regu…"

— John Danforth

Politics1660–1730

#love

"Religion is heavily laden with the kind of confirmation bias that makes people see their own faiths as true and all others as false. In other words, religion is replete with features to help people fo…"

— Jerry Coyne

Science1949

#truth