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In addition to the irony that an atheist meme used an image of the library of an institution with religious roots and affiliation, which houses among other things the Book of Kells, to try to poke fun at Christians as purportedly readers of only one book, there is the additional irony that it speaks of atheist temples\u2026<\/p>\n

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In addition to the irony that an atheist meme used an image of the library of an institution with religious roots and affiliation, which houses among other things the Book of Kells, to try to poke fun at Christians as purportedly readers of only one book, there is the additional irony that it speaks of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":37362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[1314,1848,2014,2878,5388,6549,7250,7252,12921],"class_list":["post-34032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism-religion","tag-books","tag-christians","tag-college","tag-dublin","tag-irony","tag-library","tag-meme","tag-memes","tag-trinity"],"yoast_head":"\nDouble Irony<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In addition to the irony that an atheist meme used an image of the library of an institution with religious roots and affiliation, which houses among\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/03\/double-irony.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Double Irony\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In addition to the irony that an atheist meme used an image of the library of an institution with religious roots and affiliation, which houses among\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/03\/double-irony.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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