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Lorenzo Warby's avatar

Though the Enlightenment take on that may be less than accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credo_quia_absurdum

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Blurtings and Blatherings's avatar

I understood that poor old Tertullian has been unjustly tarred by association with that phrase (is he even remembered for anything else?). And this unbeliever is fair enough to acknowledge that the philosophers of the Enlightenment, to put it mildly, weren't always fair to Christianity. But the phrase still does seem an appropriate motto for our confused era. Women can have penises? Credo quia absurdum.

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