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<\/a>10) Links between genetic determinism and white supremacy remain strong.<\/p>\n9) The staunchest Dawkins followers got nothin’.<\/p>\n
8) Wasps are brainless but extremely aggressive.<\/p>\n
7) Opinions on Dawkins split down party lines as neatly as a Congressional vote.<\/p>\n
6) Saying, “So, chill” is defensive.<\/p>\n
5) When they like you, it’s good writing. When they don’t, it’s “rhetoric.”<\/p>\n
4) Fundamentalist atheists HATE being called that. So do it early and often.<\/p>\n
3) Incredibly, even\u00a0an atheist with postgraduate work in ecology and evolution can\u00a0still be a church-kissing, climate-change-denying reactionary one step to the left of Mike Huckabee.<\/p>\n
2) Lay back and let your friends and your enemies duke it out.<\/p>\n
1)\u00a0It is important to log off Twitter with the same number of fucks you logged in with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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