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To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Richard Dawkins
Mind, Atheism, Viruses
Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.