Speaking to British paper The Times, Dawkins insisted that if religion were to be abolished, it would "give people a license to do really bad things."

Expanding on his point, the Oxford University fellow said that, without the presence of a higher being, "people may feel free to do bad things because they feel God is no longer watching them."

Reverting to his sharp rhetoric on religion, Dawkins warned that people would feel entitled to do what they like because they no longer need to obey a "divine spy camera in the sky reading their every thought,"—a description he often uses for an omnipresent God... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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