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@judgedread Having attended Cathloic school for many years I was floored to learn that there were more gospels besides Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and they were pretty wild. The fact that the bible is curated by the church proves it's a human institution. It doesn't mean we cant learn anything from it or draw some meaning from it, but it's still a very human thing, and we should take it with a grain of salt.
@Patricles It's also funny that Protestants are stuck with (most of) the Bible Catholics compiled. No escaping tradition.
The pre-printing press world is a highly controlled memetic space. Any media beyond the level of a wandering minstrel requires considerable capital expenditure. If you put on a play that offends the crown it is trivially easy to shut it down and burn every script.

The most impressive multimedia show in most cities and towns is provided by the Catholic church.

A very different attention economy.
It's not a debate, it's a sales pitch.

The mark can walk away at any time. He doesn't need to deboonk you. There are no rules of engagement. No one has to engage at all.

Thank you for attending my TED Talk.
The Charlie Kirk 'revival' is smaller than Barbenheimer and will vanish just as swiftly.
This is a kind of simulator. I just read that extremely demanding Christian cults like the Hutterites have an 80% defection rate - that's how many of their kids leave the cult.

This explains why high demand religions haven't taken over the US despite it being a hothouse for fanatic generation. The burned over district couldn't sell it.
The most convincing defense of Christianity I've seen is the life of Mr. Rogers and Slate Star Codex's review of a history of Christianity.

Not that they convince me that it's TRUE, but that it's useful for many people to be convinced that it's true.

It generates Leviathan to control Moloch, to put it in Scott Alexander's terminology.

B15 coming in for an experimental splashdown landing.

I know I am pretty clever so calling me stupid or even implying it get you blocked because it establishes that you are arguing in extreme bad faith like a dirty kike.

Them's the rules.
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