Pope Francis speaks to a massive crowd on the National Mall, Washington, DC:
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Richard Dawkins speaks to a sparse crowd at the 2012 Reason Rally at the National Mall:
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Estimates of crowd size ranged from a paltry 8,000 to an generous high of 30,000.
(N.B.: God did not show up to dry the atheists off miraculously as He did at Fatima.)
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Richard Dawkins speaks to a sparse crowd at the 2012 Reason Rally at the National Mall:
Estimates of crowd size ranged from a paltry 8,000 to an generous high of 30,000.
(N.B.: God did not show up to dry the atheists off miraculously as He did at Fatima.)