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Comment author: jwhendy 04 April 2011 04:39:29PM 1 point [-]

The still-religious community members might see it as a threat to their identity to accept that one of their own could still be a good person after no longer observing their tenets.

That, or they just explain it by stating that god is the source of all goodness anyway. Any good "steam" I'm running on is from god, regardless of if I'm aware of that fact.