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$\"Recycled$ <\/p>\n

My pastor recently mentioned<\/a> the fact that, because Earth\u2019s water is a closed system, the water we drink is likely to include, sooner or later, water that was part of the wine at the last supper, or in the Jordan river when Jesus was baptized.<\/p>\n

Pliny the In-Between<\/a> turned that scientific fact into an image about people trying to make money off of it.<\/p>\n

Which is worse? People rejecting science in the name of religion? Or people accepting but misusing it in the name of religion?<\/p>\n

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