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Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0





A wonderful friend shared this video with me after she read Godless Mamma. Alain de Botton beautifully describes a world where atheists can create richer lives for themselves by stealing the best practices of the world's largest and most powerful religious organizations. 

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