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Someone has created a Facebook event that seems to be aimed at ridding the world of those Christians who are anti-intellectual, illogical and gullible: HT Scott Bailey and Hemant Mehta What do readers think? Is this an excellent satire, a serious challenge, a joke in poor taste, a really good idea, or something else? \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,139,42],"tags":[3309,3318,3329,3686,4871,5677,8739,10800,12229],"class_list":["post-8301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-fundamentalism-religion","category-humor","tag-facebook","tag-fail","tag-faith","tag-funny","tag-humor","tag-jesus","tag-parody","tag-satire","tag-take-the-wheel"],"yoast_head":"\n
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