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Letter: Editor's pick: Religion and motivation without gods

Published 10 May 2017

From Frank Aquino, West Leederville, Western Australia

The first human to realise they were going to die pretended gods would make a comfy afterlife. Atheism is the absence of self-delusion. All babies are born atheists; then the trouble starts.

Issue no. 3125 published 13 May 2017

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