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Old 08-20-08, 08:49 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by joegrundman
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...after all—religion has been so laundered of content that it is quite possibly consistent with science....
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.
Not even in the slightest clearer. I think it is almost his intention to be unclear.

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