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All Christians and all atheists do not disagree about everything. For instance, I agree very strongly with Hemant Mehta<\/a> that this church needs to learn how to use quotation marks correctly:<\/p>\n

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There are in fact whole blogs and web sites dedicated to the misuse of quotation marks. It is cases like these, when people seem to think they indicate emphasis<\/em>, that the results tend to be unintentionally hilarious.<\/p>\n

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