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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 30 Oct 2014

    Science proves that consecrated wafers are still wheat and not Jesus: http://wp.me/ppUXF-wQD  via @Evolutionistrue

    8:13 AM - 30 Oct 2014
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      1. Apocalypse Slouch‏ @dirkster42_ 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @TJaredFarm

        @TJaredFarm Yeah, I'm really not sure how "same DNA" is supposed to refute "empirical substance not changed, underlying reality is changed."

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      1. tlönista  🌹 🔥‏ @shimonedelman 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @GregoryHickok @Evolutionistrue They must have used the Lite wafer brand ("I can't believe it's not Jesus").

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      1. Dorian Cervantes‏ @Lejfieg 30 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue ha! Go figure.

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      2. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue " can persuade a religious person. I seems to me that the enlightened person has a fundamentally antithetical...

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      3. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue relation to his beliefs. He holds them only insofar as they can be subjected to the standard of...

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      4. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @pensa122

        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue rational skepticism. In this mood, tradition, religion, and any existing standard external to reason...

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      5. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @pensa122

        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue counts for naught. The religious person have a relationship of trust to beliefs,...

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      6. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @pensa122

        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue the enlightened person has one of suspicion to them.

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      7. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @pensa122

        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue I think, if we argue against religion by disproving particular beliefs, we will succeed in disproving beliefs...

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      8. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @pensa122

        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue but never in convincing anyone who was not already convinced.

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      9. la tafiole sucree‏ @latafiolesucree 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @pensa122

        @Balbuena122 @sapinker @Evolutionistrue nah. many have left religion after exposure to skepticism. many believers suspect it's not true..

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      1. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue ...to his beliefs is one of absolute certainty and immediate truth,so that no argument against "ridiculous claims

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      1. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue immediate relation to (his) truth; so much so that the absolute is the given, that is his faithful relation to...

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      1. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue But the religious person, faith is so constitutive of his self-regard and his way of life that he has an...

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      1. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue In a enlightened mood, we are inclined to determine religion to be silly and its claims to be ill-founded...

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      1. Linda Ward Selbie  📷‏ @lindaws 30 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue Actually the snack cracker used 4 the ritual made of rice, gluten free! As starving child Lent I ate hungry

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      1. pensativoAndy‏ @pensa122 30 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue This seems to miss the point, doesnt it?

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      1. la tafiole sucree‏ @latafiolesucree 30 Oct 2014
        Replying to @cycleslips

        @cycleslips @sapinker @geo_teira @Evolutionistrue you mean with a side of blood.

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