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Elizabeth Anscombe, "Twenty opinions common among modern Anglo-American philosophers" (Rome, 7/12 April 1986), as reprinted in Faith in a hard ground: essays on religion, philosophy, and ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe, ed. Mary Geach and Luke Gormally, St Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs 11 (Exeter, UK; Charlottesville, VA: Imprint Academic, 2008), . Anscombe: "there are a number of opinions which are inimical to Christianity which are very often found implicitly or explicitly among analytical philosophers. A seriously believing Christian ought not, in my opinion, to hold any of them. . . . In saying these opinions are inimical to the Christian religion I am not implying that they can only be judged false on that ground. Each of them is a philosophical error and can be argued to be such on purely philosophical grounds."