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Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature.
The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system, but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect[citation needed]. Many religions have organized behaviors, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, congregations of laity, regular meetings or services for the purposes of veneration of a deity or for prayer, holy places (either natural or architectural), and/or scriptures. The practice of a religion may also include sermons, commemoration of the activities of a god or gods, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. However, there are examples of religions for which some or many of these aspects of structure, belief, or practices are absent.
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief." As of January 2010 the English-language version has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
Yes baby
Won't you let me tell you
How I feel about you babe?
Babe
Oh no, oh no
Oh no, oh no, oh no
Oh no, no, no, no, no
Oh no
Oh, this baby
Oh, oh, oh, yeah
Say one, Sunday morning
I woke up with you on my mind
Yeah, cuz I knew later on I'd see you
In your glory, yeah, lookin' so fine
Yeah, now I could be a little forward
And do things to show you how I feel
But I don't want to be disrespectful
So I just be waitin' for the day
You baptize me with your kiss
Oh girl, cuz see
The more I get to know you I
Hope and pray to, everyday do
Whatever's righteous and true
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
And babygirl don't you know I
Worship the ground that you walk on?
And live by your every word
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
I wanna thank your father
For making you on that day
And give blessings to your mother
For raising you so heavenly
Now in my heart I know for certain
Without an ounce of doubt in my mind
That I can preach the whole entire sermon
Yeah, just to testify all the goodness of your love
The more I get to know you I
Hope and pray to, everyday do
Whatever's righteous and true
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
And babygirl don't you know I
Worship the ground that you walk on?
And live by your every word
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
What I want?
Is your love
Take me higher, baby
Take me higher, baby
It's what I believe
Is what I need
To spend one life of wholesome and good love
The more I get to know you I
Hope and pray to, everyday do
Whatever's righteous and true
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
And babygirl don't you know I
Worship the ground that you walk on?
And live by your every word
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
The more I get to know you I
Hope and pray to, everyday do
Whatever's righteous and true
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
And babygirl don't you know I
Worship the ground that you walk on?
Live by your every word
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
The more I get to know you I
Hope and pray to, everyday do
Whatever's righteous and true
Cuz your love is so religious, yeah
And babygirl don't you know I
Worship the ground that you walk on?
Live by your every word