What Richard Dawkins thinks about motivation

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Evolutionary biologist and author; writes The Poetry of Reality newsletter on Substack.

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   Our readingBelievers should ask whether God's reward and punishment are their only reason to be good

   Their wordsDo you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment?

   ↗The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)archive.org All 13 from this book