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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: What does it mean to "play devil's advocate"?
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It means to take a position you don't necessarily hold, for the sake of argument, that opposes the majority or more popular position.

The term comes from the Catholic Church's canonization process. When someone argued that an individual should be made a saint, someone else would play "devil's advocate," arguing that the person should not become a saint.