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...after all—religion has been so laundered of content that it is quite possibly consistent with science....
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i think this here is a conclusion, not an assumption:hmm:
if you include the full sentence, then i think this becomes clearer:
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Once nothing follows from a belief in God that doesn’t equally follow from the presumably weaker creed that it would be good if I believed in God—a doctrine that is readily available to the atheist, after all—religion has been so laundered of content that it is quite possibly consistent with science.
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