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Atheist Insists Society Needs Guidance from Religion

March 16, 2012

Atheist Alain de Botton Insists Society Needs Guidance From Religion [Excerpts] Famed atheist Alain de Botton, also a best-selling Swiss author and philosopher known for challenging Richard Dawkins and what he calls his "destructive" atheistic theology, has in a recent interview highlighted many ways in which religion is useful even...Read more

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