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(Reblogged from theamericanscholar)
The planet would be such a lovely, peaceful place, she said, once we humans had finally killed each other off completely: imagine how happy the animals would be. Religion was a particular bugbear: mostly just an excuse, according to her, for people to hate each other. “How much better off we would be if nobody had ever invented God.
Evelyn Toynton, eulogizing her mother. (via theamericanscholar)