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The above graphic came to my attention on Facebook. I appreciate attempts to introduce nuance into discussions of beliefs and views. The above does better than the \u201cDawkins Scale.\u201d But the color coding doesn\u2019t seem like it is going to be useful. Can you imagine the conversations? \u201cYou\u2019re indigo on the existence of God? As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,101],"tags":[433,1223,1268,2027,2564,2565,2856,3994,4039,5190,11666,12485,12486,13081,13681],"class_list":["post-28829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism-religion","category-theology","tag-agnostic","tag-black","tag-blue","tag-colors","tag-deism","tag-deist","tag-dress","tag-gnostic","tag-gold","tag-infrared","tag-spectrum","tag-theism","tag-theist","tag-ultraviolet","tag-white"],"yoast_head":"\n
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