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I was unaware of Existential Comics\u2019\u00a0unofficial<\/em>\u00a0comic section<\/a> until someone drew the gem below to my attention, which rather mercilessly satirizes the New Atheists who simply ridicule religious thought where more serious critics in the past have recognized worthy adversaries even when they adamantly disagreed with them:<\/p>\n

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