But to an outsider, such theology seems equally as absurd as the theology it is opposing: is a wafer physically or just spiritually god? 3/x
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Notice: this debate, by design, has zero relation to reality or anything that could ever impinge in reality. 4/x
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(In fact, that was aquinas’s defense of transubstantiation: a wafer can be a god b/c essences of things are separate from their substance...
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And so the fact that the physical reality of this thing is very un-god like should not interfere with our claiming ow. 5/x)
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So why such a fuss over semantics? 6/x
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The way I was taught in history class: people just REALLY believed their theology. So much so that they were willing to die for it. 7/x
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But, come on, I would not die over whether the word potato should be pronounced with a soft a or a strong a in the middle...
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...And I wouldn’t devote my life to arguing whether triangles REALLY exist or are math constructs. So why fuss over transubstantiation? 8/x
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Why are THEOLOGICAL word games, unlike math or linguistic debates, so powerful, they motivate martyrdom? 9/x
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
Because these insignificant world model deformations are a mental branding iron, imprinted to act as a beacon for shared telos of a group
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Holding normative beliefs defines you a "good person". However, catholics and protestants have similar norms, so they need ontological diffs
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Replying to @Plinz
Yes I think that’s going on. But as I argue later on, I don’t think the theological stances are quite arbitrary.
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