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    #61
    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    and...?

    I don't think so. I'm studying the Reformation(s) at the moment, and one of the major thrusts was the elimination of superstition from Christian practice.
    Oh the irony! So Augustine and his ilk rail against traditional (pagan) superstition compared with rational Christianity and then the Church he helped form is accused of superstition by later reformers.

    Trouble with your axioms is they are unknowable and require faith and as such do not actually qualify as axioms outside a faith community ( For information and not NAT, an axiom or postulate is a universally accepted truth).
    But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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      #62
      Originally posted by Gibbon View Post
      ( For information and not NAT, an axiom or postulate is a universally accepted truth).
      It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife...

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        #63
        Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
        It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife...
        So he can lose said possession and give him something to moan about ad infinitum.
        But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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