Taylor Abeel

[Taylor Abeel @TaylorAbeel]

@michaelshermer @elonmusk Oh wow… so sad! I used to live in SB. Spent a lot of time up there on Gibraltar. I hope you are doing okay up there!

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@michaelshermer @michaelshermer Are you familiar with @CultExpert? https://t.co/HgS4JfOmhk

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@UnbelievableJB @JonHaidt @CultExpert on cults would be a great interview as well.

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@UnbelievableJB I’d love to hear about how we separate “hearing God”, “prophecy” or our perceived experience of God (as Christians) from cognitive bias and motivated reason. You could interview @JonHaidt

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@larsdorland @UnbelievableJB I second this! As one who has wrestled myself but remain Christian, I feel often quite misrepresented by this conversation in our culture.

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@michaelshermer Thanks for this good reminder! And @randydenimes, plenty more where that came from… https://t.co/ZzxZfcl8DE

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@faxmatr @CultExpert @CultExpert this would be a great podcast topic. Fantastic article on this issue here: https://t.co/O0Fwg0ivm8

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@faxmatr @CultExpert Be careful what you wish for! Silencing minority voices (rural Americans being one) will only lead to more of the kind of extremism @CultExpert has been warning us about! The electoral college is not perfect but it is part of the “checks and balances” that promote compromise.

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@kyledoops MATIC, SOL, UNI, ADA, ETH

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@iWomansplainer A better way of putting, to steel man the view: 1) Claim: God is perfectly loving. 2) Murdering innocent children is not loving 3)God commands the murder of innocent children. 4)Therefore God is not loving,the command was mistakenly attributed to God, or murder is loving.

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@iWomansplainer More accurately, I think the view you are criticizing is a rejection of a particular view of God (I.e. a god who does evil things). For example, I don’t believe in a God who commands the sacrifice of children. Anyone who claimed he does would more likely be wrong about God.

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@MDTaps @iWomansplainer Jesus was taking to Jews while the temple was standing about a temple tax (the Tithe). Nothing in the Bible suggests that non-Jews are required to continue to pay this “temple tax” in the New Testament. Instead the standard is raised to give generously, not under compulsion.

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@MDTaps @iWomansplainer I disagree… The NT consistently commands Christians to “give generously”, a matter of the heart, but does not command us to tithe anywhere. The tithe is an old covenant law. At best Jesus does mention the tithe but he also mentioned offering sacrifices in the temple (Matt 5:23)

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@kyledoops If you haven’t read it, a book I think you’d like is “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”… great read!

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@Sheldon_Sniper Good ol’ hindsight bias… everyone is a prophet when things go well! 😂