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by sophacles 923 days ago
A significant portion of the examples in that link follow the form:

This person is so holy that they drink water.

The very fact that it was a sign of unusual holiness to drink water seems to undermine the point. It's like saying "in the 2020s people mostly didn't use cell phones. Look at this passage about a group called the Amish, see what I mean?".