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Given your premises, you will have to come up with a different reason for rejecting Christ as you do. But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

— Douglas Wilson

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Often paraphrased as "There are two tenets of atheism: One, there is no God. Two, I hate him."

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