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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 25 Dec 2017

    Worst of all: "Faith is OK, so believe the dogmas of *my* tribe!"https://nyti.ms/2prBjm9 

    4:46 PM - 25 Dec 2017
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      2. Andrew Walser‏ @AndrewWalser2 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Yes. The basic structure is: "100% certainty is never possible, so 0% certainty is every bit as good, and in conditions of 0% certainty it is best to treat religious stories as if they were 100% true." Airtight logic.

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      2. Debates with Bots‏ @jasfile 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Many of the truly important things in life aren't "provable" in any meaningful sense.

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      3. Kareem Sabri‏ @kareem_sabri 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @jasfile @sapinker

        Such as?

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      4. Debates with Bots‏ @jasfile 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @kareem_sabri @sapinker

        A sense of belonging, a worldview in which everything coheres, the experience of beauty, relationships, meaning, purpose and values.

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      5. Kareem Sabri‏ @kareem_sabri 26 Dec 2017
        Replying to @jasfile @sapinker

        There’s proof for the existence of all those things. Even though they’re mostly subjective.

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      1. ViiStar‏ @VIIStar_ 26 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        "Denying the existence of God is as much a leap of faith as asserting it." *spittakes* God is an un-falsifiable claim, and asking people to prove a negative is intellectually dishonest. That article. Damn. I can FEEL the oozing desperation.

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      2. Tris Tristofferson  🐉‏ @Tristofferson 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        he says, advocating for his tribe.

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      3. Debates with Bots‏ @jasfile 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Tristofferson @sapinker

        A great point...I often hear people complain about religious tribalism while imagining themselves independent of tribalism...laboring under the delusion of the immaculate perception.

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      1. Inhabital planets dont grow on trees‏ @Nostrastevus 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        If faith is just trust and love (which is basically what the author spent 4 paragraphs saying), then put your faith is something worthy of your trust and love. The god of Abraham has the temper of a child and the plot of the bible is super convoluted and discombobulated.

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      2. Marcus Orr‏ @MarkieOrr 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        And for the fourth time, you're refuting something the article NEVER said. Big fan of your work, but this is so dishonest.

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      3. marktshark  🇨🇮  🇸🇪  🏳️‍🌈‏ @marklerequin 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MarkieOrr @sapinker

        It’s the very first sentence of the piece 😂

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      4. Marcus Orr‏ @MarkieOrr 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @marklerequin @sapinker

        Please point out any dogmatic claim or even appeals to believe in dogmatic claims made in the article. The entire piece is full expressions of the author's own doubts.

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      5. marktshark  🇨🇮  🇸🇪  🏳️‍🌈‏ @marklerequin 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MarkieOrr @sapinker

        If this isn’t dogma then I don’t know what is. He’s presenting elements of the #Jesusmyth as fact.pic.twitter.com/0M2uxJOw4b

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      6. Marcus Orr‏ @MarkieOrr 26 Dec 2017
        Replying to @marklerequin @sapinker

        He prefaces his entire discussion of this particular story with "According to the Gospel of John". Throughout the article he's earnestly discussing what he admits are articles of faith. Not trying to command you to believe his tribe because he said so.

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      7. marktshark  🇨🇮  🇸🇪  🏳️‍🌈‏ @marklerequin 26 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MarkieOrr @sapinker

        “According to ...” comes 11 paragraphs earlier and he’s clearly no longer referencing it since he quotes Forsyth and Barnes in the paragraphs immediately preceding. He uses biblical verse and scholars to support his views. That’s dogma

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      1. Colin MacAllister‏ @dcoli 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I most disagree with his notion that reason can analyze modern physics. For me it’s definitely an act of faith ;-)

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      1. Neal Jordan‏ @Neal_A_Jordan 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @nytimes

        I used to think precisely like this.

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      1. Charles Ellis‏ @CharlesLEllis4 25 Dec 2017
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        "Dude, check out my hole, it doesn't even hurt to poke it - I'm, like, totally a zombie now!"

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