Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
From Richard Dawkins
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.
I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.
We have the power to turn against our creators.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
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