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Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

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Julien Green
Age: 97 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 6
Died: 1998
Died: August 13
Autobiographer
Biographer
Writer
Paris
France
Julian Hartridge Green
J. F. Green
David Irland
Théophile Delaporte
Bigots
Orthodoxy
Unbelief
Anti
Belief
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