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		eigenvalue on March 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The secret joke at the heart of the Harvard affirm... Those divinity students at a good school in the 1800s were incredibly smart and erudite. Even if you think theology is wrong or silly, it doesn’t mean the people were silly.

cabalamat on March 27, 2023 [–]

Whether it is wrong and silly is irrelevant; my claim is that it is "ideological and unrigorous".

I'm sure lots of them were smart and erudite.

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