"How can people bear to live their lives bound by such insanely specific yet manifestly pointless rules?"
— Islam

January 1, 1970

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Richard Dawkins, The Intellectual and Moral Courage of Atheism, in reference to examples of legalistic minutiae from the Concise Commandments of Islam handed down by Ayatollah Ozma Sayyed Mohammad Reda Musavi Golpaygani (Originally from 2007; quote is from the slightly revised 2019 version on the website)