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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by soylentcola on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:01PM (#26624816)
Maybe I'm just being snarky or missing the real meaning of the term, but I think of "supernatural" as something that is beyond any capacity to test or prove. Anything that can be proven would fall under my definition of "natural", even if it's beyond my capacity to explain or understand.

By definition, I'd consider any sort of gods, demons, ghosts, or whatever to be either nonexistent or something that exists (which would imply that it's something natural and operates in some currently unknown way).

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by loveistheanswer on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:07PM (#26624931)
>I think of "supernatural" as something that is beyond any capacity to test or prove.

I agree. It's worth noting that the fundamental nature of our consciousness could fall into that realm, judging by how it is scientifically impossible to isolate and control for, and is thus seemingly indefineable.

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