"Even the constantly reiterated insistence that we are miserable offenders, born in sin, is a kind of inverted arrogance: such vanity, to presume that our moral conduct has some sort of cosmic significance, as though the Creator of the Universe wouldn’t have better things to do than tot up our black marks and our brownie points. The universe is all concerned with me. Is that not the arrogance that passeth all understanding?"
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Richard Dawkins, The Intellectual and Moral Courage of Atheism (Originally from 2007; quote is from the slightly revised 2019 version on the website)
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