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Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
Time and time again, Hitch lets theists get away with murder.
What applies to the part does not necessarily apply to the whole and the rverse is similarily false. I am made of trillions of particles that behave like particles and waves. I, as a whole, don't.
I need Oxygen and Water to maintain my structural integrity. My atoms don't.
If the universe as a whole is devoid of a particular purpose does not imply that there is no truth or whatever string of non-sequiturs that Wilson was inventing.
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