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30 Post author: jwhendy 04 April 2011 03:25AM

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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 20 April 2011 03:58:20AM 2 points [-]

Also, importantly, it's much easier to gather direct evidence to support the heuristic "don't drop things made of glass" than "the Eucharist is really the body of Jesus."

Comment author: jwhendy 20 April 2011 07:50:50PM 0 points [-]

Dropping a glass vs. picking up the Bible are equivalently easy :) Whether you need to be sold on the Bible beforehand is a different story.

You're right, though, and thus I'm far more confident in teaching-as-true those things which are in the "universally discoverable" realm vs. the "incredibly sticky and unagreed upon" realm.