Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing … - Edgar Fiedler

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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

Edgar Fiedler

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

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