Lesson #1 in any field dealing with history and historical cultures : Presentism. Don't do it.
"Uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism..._analysis)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Presentism (the Historian's fallacy)
"Uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism..._analysis)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Presentism (the Historian's fallacy)
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist