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Carl Sagan's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

Will probably make your children atheists though.

So much of the world still runs on fucking bullshit, just look at the justifications for the ongoing [redacted because it'll probably derail the conversation].



It was sad that Sagan died before the New Atheism movement started -- in many ways the "The Demon-Haunted World" is sort of the same book as Dawkins' "The God Delusion" but Sagan made his arguments in a more level-headed, less arrogant way and realized that religion was just part of the problem, not the root of it.


> So much of the world still runs on fucking bullshit

I would suggest now perhaps more than ever. Evolution of social media and corruption of big media played it's role




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