the Bible and its consequences have been a disaster for the Christian faith
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this is my main conclusion from the Reformation so far
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Christianity would have been better served by oral transmission alone an actual text is insufficiently protean and contains a ton of attack surfaces for correct but dumb criticisms
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Jean 🍌 Leon Retweeted Nassim Nicholas Taleb
taleb made this point but instead of oral transmission about the use of a dead languages. are there any existing religions with only oral transmission that are expanding or atleast not shrinking?https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1037311983882838017 …
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Nassim Nicholas TalebVerified account @nntalebWhen Latin was dropped by the Catholic church, while other Abrahamic religions retained holy tongues, Catholicism collapsed -perhaps independently. Meanwhile, pple in fastest growing religion pray in classical Arabic a tongue <20% understand & < 4% speak. in#FooledbyRandomness pic.twitter.com/IZXbzNVcbEShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Hmm I don't know enough about Chinese folk religion to evaluate Hinduism? Unsure how much actually rides on the vedas
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