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{{cleanup|This trope is not "A list exists". It is "A list exists where the final item does not match the other items." Any examples that are just lists should be moved to more appropriate tropes.}}
== Literature ==
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* From a recent{{when}} issue of ''Readers Digest'': "Three Reasons to be Happy: The divorce rate in the United States has fallen by 13 percent since 2000. The average credit card debt is under $5,000 for the first time since 2002. Scientists have discovered that gorillas play tag."
* In the very beginning of [[Richard Dawkins]]' book ''The God Delusion'', he asks the reader to imagine a world with no religion. A world without suicide bombers, crusades, witch-hunts, middle eastern conflicts, persecution of Jews, the troubles in Northern Ireland... and no shiny-suited bouffant-haired televangelists.
** Not to mention the book's [[Long List]] which has been quoted countless times, in which he says, "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."{{context|reason=MOD: How is this subpoint an example of the trope as written? Or is the quote just here to bash its writer?}}
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