OK, so let's say that someone finds an authentic Shroud of Turin, is a genius geneticist, and clones the blood on it
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Oh, I worry about them too. Their logic leads straight to the worst intersections of "science" and religion.
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The heresy of God the Father literally being Jesus' biological dad isn't exactly uncommon
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Mormons believe it. It was also part of the beliefs of the Taiping Rebellion
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Mormons are interesting bc their holy text comes from the 19th century and so is very explicitly science fictiony
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Yeah, I actually know enough ex-Mormons who ended up with a *good* post-religious ideology (if that makes sense) that I vaguely respect>
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> Mormonism the same way I do Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy, because they don't all claim to be singular magic experts
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And I'm reliably informed by ex-Mormons who hate the Church of LDS that it's still a far more.left-friendly Church on everything but gender
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OSC considered himself a lifelong Democrat when it came to economic issues and so forth, hates kneejerk libertarianism, etc
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But unfortunately the gay marriage thing all by itself drove him into frothing reactionary zeal
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