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Anyone who reads this blog regularly probably thinks the answer is obvious. But the question is asked afresh and explored well in an article by Damien Walter in The Guardian<\/em><\/a> with the same title as this blog post (HT John Morehead on Facebook).<\/p>\n

It includes great quotes such as \u201cAny sufficiently advanced technocrat will be indistinguishable from God\u201d and \u201cReligion is a battle ground, and walking away from it only concedes the war to your opponents.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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