“All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.”

— Cathy Ladman

quoted in [Dawkins, Richard, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2006, Bantam Press, ISBN 0-618-68000-4, "The Roots of Religion", pp. 167-168]

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