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$\"gullibility\"$ <\/p>\n

Gavin Rumney shared the above<\/a>, and it made me chuckle. Given that at least most atheists don\u2019t take advantage of the gullibility that characterizes at\u00a0least some\u00a0Christians (and clearly some people who at least claim to be Christians\u00a0do<\/em> take advantage of that gullibility for their own profit), does this prove clearly and unambiguously that the line between the moral and the immoral does not\u00a0follow the border between atheists and religious believers?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"