"Is Religion Inevitable?" - Richard Dawkins Reveals All
The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
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The Relationship Between Original Sin and Transsubstantiation in the Catholic Religion
Gullibility expands to fill a vacuum. I think G.K. Chesterton, who was a very religious man, said when people stop believing in God, they believe in anything. There's no doubt about it that we seem to have exchanged one form of superstitious religiosity for another. And there's a very strong analogy to transubstantiation in transsexualism. A male person becomes female when he declares himself to be female. In the Aristotelian terms, wine has changed to blood. The substance of maleness has changed to femaleness. But the accidentals, the incidentals are regarded by Catholics as trivial and by trans people as trivial. So they really
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