CHAPTER 22 BAD FAITH: THE NEW ATHEIST SALVATION
                    
                            
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            HEBRON, WEST BANK, FEBRUARY 2008
                
                    
                            
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            Mohammed Herbawi and his close friend and soccer buddy Shadi Zghayer
                
        
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            suicide bombing mission
                
        
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            Hamas took responsibility
                
        
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            interview friends and families
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA MISSIONE DI ATRAN
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            members of the same Hamas neighborhood soccer team
                
        
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            neither rich nor poor
                
        
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            planned to attend, the local Palestine Polytechnic
                
        
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            She was divorced
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA MAMMA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            our society respects martyrs.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL SENTIMENTO DEI VICINI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “I’m not religious and I respect them.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:RELIGIONE SECONDARIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            right cause,
                
        
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            “If only I would have known, I am against it, against it.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SENTIMENTO MAMMA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “You took your rifle and went. You blew up your belt and burned. So as the son that they killed would rise up again.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL POSTER FATTO DA HAMAS X I MARTIRI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “People don’t have much trouble finding one another for actions like this.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:NORMALITÀ
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            THE END OF FAITH AND OTHER PULP FICTION
                
                    
                            
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            The End of Faith: Religion, Terrorism and the Future of Reason,1 Sam Harris,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:BEST SELLERS
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            tender religious sensibilities of others.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:NEL MIRINO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            the destructive nature of religion
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CIÒ CHE LAMENTA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Dan Dennett’s
                
        
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            Christopher Hitchens’s
                
        
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            Richard Dawkins’s
                
        
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            secular moderation toward religion
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SUL BANCO DEGLI IMPUYATI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            I only want to introduce some common misconceptions about suicide bombers
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DI COSA È VITTIMA IL NA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “we can no longer ignore the fact that billions of our neighbors believe in the metaphysics of martyrdom,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL MESSAGGIO NA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            (Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins, and Dennett) see science at the front line
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL BENE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Islam in particular, and religion in general.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL MALE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Suicide bombers are not only Islamic or religiously motivated.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PRIMO CONTROFATTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL GRUPPO PIÙ PRODUTIVO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            secular movement
                
        
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            most suicide bombings occurred in Lebanon,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ALTRI MARTIRI LAICI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            (Syrian Nationalist Party, Lebanese Communist Party, Lebanese Ba’ath Party).
                
        
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            isn’t much precedent in Islamic tradition
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L ISLAM HA APPRESO LA TECNICA DAI LAICI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            the atheist anarchist movement
                
                    
                            
                                Note:I PRIMI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            parents who would not have done anything in their power to stop their child
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UNA PERSONA CHE NN ESISTE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            one regularly hears that Spartan and samurai mothers smiled
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LUOGO COMUNE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            What are they going to say when first informed of their child’s death? That it was senseless and stupid?
                
                    
                            
                                Note:È CHIARO CHE TENDONO A GIUSTIFICARE MA... SOLO DOPO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            in private, “I am happy” or even “I am proud.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IN PRIVATO TUTTO CAMBIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “Seventy percent of the inmates of France’s jails, for instance, are Muslims. The Muslims of Western Europe are not atheists
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L ACCUSA DI HARRIS
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            religious people in general, and Muslims in particular, tend to do more terrible things
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ACCUSA IMPLICITA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Muslims in America tend to be slightly more religious than non-Muslims, but are underrepresented in U.S. prisons
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CONTROFATTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            underemployment, poor schooling, and political marginalization.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:COSA SPIEGA IL CARCERE... ALTRO CHE RELIGIONE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            the more someone is exposed to Muslim religious education, the less likely he or she is to enter prison.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:FATTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            In the Encyclopedia of Wars,9 Charles Phillips and Alexander Axelrod survey 1,763 violent conflicts throughout history, of which only 123 (7 percent) were religious.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:GUERRE RELIGIOSE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            in recent times,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UNA TENDENZA CHE SI ACUISCE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            I see no evidence that with religion banished, science will reduce violence
                
                    
                            
                                Note:RELIGIONE E FELICITÀ
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Nor do I see evidence that religion necessarily contributes more to unhappiness
                
        
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            to lessen social distance within a group
                
                    
                            
                                Note:FUNZIONE DELA RELIGIONE NELLA STORIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            greater trust of fellow citizens even outside the group
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TRA I PENTECOSTALI.... I  PIÙ IMPEGNATI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            less educated and poorer a society is, the more religious it tends to be.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CORR SEMPRE SBANDIERATA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            religion is an immature form of human understanding
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PER GLI ATEI UNA CONFERMA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            materialism is a monumental barrier to spirituality
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA VERSIONE DEI CREDENTI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Jamaica,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:MOLTO CRIMINE E MOLTA RELIGIOSITÀ... Che LOTTA CONTRO IL CRIM
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            intellectual creativity and the expansion of human freedoms and opportunities.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ASSOCIATI ALLA RELIGIONE... Ora SÌ ORA NO. StORIA BALLERINA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Islam also stops violence.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ESEMPIO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            there’s no evidence that science education stops terrorism.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SCIENZA E VIOLENZA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Diego Gambetta,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:INGEGNERI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Atheism doesn’t stop intolerance:
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ALTRO FATTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Ara Norenzayan
                
        
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            atheists are just as likely as religious believers to be intolerant of other people’s beliefs
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TESI CONFERMATA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Steven Weinberg,
                
        
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            “religion is an insult to human dignity.
                
        
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            for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SOLO LA RELIGIONE TRAVIA...TESI W
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            evil people to do good things, it takes religion.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ALTRETTANTO VERO...
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            DAWKINS’S DELUSION: THE SLAVISH MIND
                
                    
                            
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            Dan Dennett dubs the Brights
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ANSIA DI SALVARE IL MONDO DALLA RELIGIONE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            studiously avoid science
                
                    
                            
                                Note:INCIAMPI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            slavish gullibility of jihadis,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:X LORO UN DATO DI FATTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            do what they do because they really believe what they were taught in their religious schools;
                
                    
                            
                                Note:FANTASIA DAWKINSIANA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            none of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers or thirty-odd Madrid train-bomb conspirators attended a madrassah,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:NESSUNA SCUOLA RELIGIOSA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            madrassahs
                
        
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            terrorist groups rarely draw from their students
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SCARSO RECLUTAMENTO DALLE MADRASSE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            grown people seek religion because they miss their fathers.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA STRAMPALATE TESI DI D
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            they slavishly obey any instructions
                
                    
                            
                                Note:VERSIONE D
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            None.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:EVIDENZA A SOSTEGNO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            such as Harry Potter
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ALTRO BERSAGLIO OLTRE ALLA RELIGIONE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            insidious affect on rationality,
                
        
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            “About once every hundred years some wiseacre gets up and tries to banish the fairy tale,” wrote C. S. Lewis
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL PIRLA DO CSL
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            giving children a false impression
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CAPO D ACCUSA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The fantasies did not deceive me; the school stories did.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L ESPERIENZA DI CSL
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            RELIGION ISN’T CHILDISH SCIENCE
                
                    
                            
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            Copernicus,
                
        
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            earth orbited the sun.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:INIZIO DELLA SC
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Galileo Galilei
                
        
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            Enlightenment unshackled scientific thinking from lingering religious control,
                
        
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            ILLUMINISMO
        
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            separation was at best a temporary armistice,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SECONDO MOLTI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            to provide a unified theory of the world
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LO SCOPO DELLA RELIG X MOLTI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            religious adults have very different mind-sets from those of children,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL RELIGIOSO NN È UN BAMBINO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            concentrating more on the moral dimensions
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA MORALE CONTA PIÙ DI QUELLA METAFISICA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Science aims to reveal how facts are reliably coordinated
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UNO SCOPO DIFFERENTE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Religion, by contrast, is less interested in how the universe has always been than in how our tiny piece of it ought to be,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:I NS DOVERI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            From a scientific perspective, human beings are accidental
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CASO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            But doesn’t religion impede science, and vice versa? Not necessarily.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CONVIVENZA POSSIBILE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Catholic Church acknowledged the factual plausibility of Copernicus, Galileo,
                
        
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            Pope John Paul II apologized
                
        
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            “People have known for years that you can have the Earth circle around the sun and still believe in God.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:MEDITATE GENTE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            THE REALIST ILLUSION
                
                    
                            
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            Science is guided by a faith in reason that always flies ahead of the facts
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CAPITA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            the claim by Sam Harris and others “that in ethics, as in physics, there are truths waiting to be discovered,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CIÒ DI CUI DUBITA L AUTORE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Human rights weren’t discovered, but invented for social engineering
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TESI AUTORE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Thomas Jefferson.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL CONCETTO DI INDIVIDUO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Monotheism created the concept of a single humanity, worthy of improvement and salvation.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CONCETTO DI UMANOTÀ
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Ideas of “self-evident,” “natural,” and “human” rights are anything but inherently self-evident or natural in the history of our species.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TESI AUTORE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            The American and French republics began to render real the fictions
                
                    
                            
                                Note:STORIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            common both to religious dogmatists and new-atheist
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL CONCETTO DI FATTO ETICO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            OVERBLOWING IDEOLOGY
                
        
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            Harris’s suggestion in The End of Faith that a total war on Islam may be unavoidable.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:NA ALL ATTACCO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            cause of the current global wave of terrorism, then?
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CAUSA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            bits of all of them,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UN PO TUTTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Throughout human history, it is commitment to a religious or transcendental dream that ultimately sustains cooperation and competition between large groups,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:RELIG E COOP E COMP
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            kill and die for others who aren’t genetic kin.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:EEOISMO E TERRORISMO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            religion has helped to promote tyranny and rebellion against oppression,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TIRANNIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            inspire monumental works of creativity and of stunning stupidity,
                
                    
                            
                                CREATIVITÀ E OTTUSITÀ