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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by wellpast on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:19PM (#26629004)
I think you've already fallen for literalness as the only way to interpret or value anything. Which is unfortunate because all of the momentous truths in life (ie, that matter to corporeal beings, to us) are not of the literal variety. You probably know this on some buried level but you cling to the literalness anyway. Why?
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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by crispyambulance on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:26PM (#26630005)
Dude, you're on HN, what do you expect?

DFW is making a compelling point. The words were taken from his magnificent "This is water" commencement address at Kenyon College in the early naughts.

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