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# The Primate Diaries: Today's Math Lesson
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- Published: 2007-07-19T09:56:27.000Z
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[The Primate Diaries: Today's Math Lesson](http://primatediaries.blogspot.com/2007/07/todays-math-lesson.html?ref=tjomlid.com):

> **Fundamentalists:** believe 2+2 =5 because It Is Written. Somewhere. They have a lot of trouble on their tax returns.  
>  
> **“Moderate” believers:** live their lives on the basis that 2+2=4\. but go regularly to church to be told that 2+2 once made 5, or will one day make 5, or in a very real and spiritual sense should make 5.  
>  
> **“Moderate” atheists:** know that 2+2 =4 but think it impolite to say so too loudly as people who think 2+2=5 might be offended.  
>  
> **“Militant” atheists:** “Oh for pity's sake. HERE. Two pebbles. Two more pebbles. FOUR pebbles. What is WRONG with you people?”