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Institutionalized torture in Christendom was not just an unthinking habit; it had a moral rationale. If you really believe that failing to accept Jesus as one's savior is a ticket to fiery damnation, then torturing a person until he acknowledges this truth is doing him the biggest favor of his life: better a few hours now than an eternity later.


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The Language Instinct has been criticized by Geoffrey Sampson in his book The 'Language Instinct' Debate.

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18 1954) is a Canadian-born experimental psychologist cognitive scientist linguist and popular science author. In his popular books he has argued that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection.

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