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<\/a><\/p>\nBy posting this celebration of Hitchens in billboard form, skeptics inadvertently demonstrate the ugly fact that atheism, like all beliefs about the supernatural and the divine, are just that \u2013 beliefs.\u00a0 So the next time an atheist tries to suggest theirs is based on anything other than mere belief, informed though they believe it is, just point to this quote by the late Mr. Hitchens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By posting this celebration of Hitchens in billboard form, skeptics inadvertently demonstrate the ugly fact that atheism, like all beliefs about the supernatural and the divine, are just that \u2013 beliefs.\u00a0 So the next time an atheist tries to suggest theirs is based on anything other than mere belief, informed though they believe it is, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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