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“They were not longitudinal. They did no research. None. They were predicating this on some anecdotal evidence and looks at other sports, but those are apples and oranges.”

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2014

Those who at a later period called heaven "God" had forgotten that they were predicating of heaven something more which was vastly higher than the heaven.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)