With or without it, you would have good people doing good things and…

With or without it, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

1999

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On religion.

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Criticism of religion

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1999

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Steven Weinberg

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Weinberg, Steven. Address in Washington, DC. Conference on Cosmic Design. Apr. 1999, Washington, DC, USA.

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