RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 20, 2018 at 6:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2018 at 6:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-and why wouldn't they, right? We've been fully modern for 50k years, at least.
We've been using microbes for about 9k of that. Treating disease and infection for at least 5k of that. By 2.5k or so ago the miasma theory of contagion was common (and would persist in one form or another until the invention of the microscope - it wasn't entirely wrong, either), and by 2k ago hippocrates categorically rejected the idea of a supernatural cause for disease..positing natural causes within people and their environments. Then, 2k ago, a man named Varro..in a treatise about farming, lol.... writes this;
I point all of this out not only to provide some meat for the idea that people from back in the day were every bit as smart as we are now..but also to point out that the dummies of the time were every bit as dumb as our own today. It was already understood, by the time that sin was being touted as a cause for illness..that this was not the case.
Some things never change.
We've been using microbes for about 9k of that. Treating disease and infection for at least 5k of that. By 2.5k or so ago the miasma theory of contagion was common (and would persist in one form or another until the invention of the microscope - it wasn't entirely wrong, either), and by 2k ago hippocrates categorically rejected the idea of a supernatural cause for disease..positing natural causes within people and their environments. Then, 2k ago, a man named Varro..in a treatise about farming, lol.... writes this;
Quote:precautions must also be taken in neighborhood swamps . . . because certain minute creatures [animalia minuta] grow there which cannot be seen by the eye, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro
I point all of this out not only to provide some meat for the idea that people from back in the day were every bit as smart as we are now..but also to point out that the dummies of the time were every bit as dumb as our own today. It was already understood, by the time that sin was being touted as a cause for illness..that this was not the case.
Some things never change.
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