RE: Literal and Not Literal
August 29, 2019 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2019 at 12:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We know, for a fact, that people have had varying levels of compulsion to superstition over time, Acro.
The record is under your feet. That the superstitions in question were once more central to life, and more strenuously believed in, and believed in literally, is also not a point of legitimate debate.
Abrahamic traditions would not receive their delegitimizing metaphorical treatment until well after the classical period- and then, literally, on the backs of “pagan” philosophy.
It didn’t take, at all- until within living memory. Still hasn’t taken in your case.
The record is under your feet. That the superstitions in question were once more central to life, and more strenuously believed in, and believed in literally, is also not a point of legitimate debate.
Abrahamic traditions would not receive their delegitimizing metaphorical treatment until well after the classical period- and then, literally, on the backs of “pagan” philosophy.
It didn’t take, at all- until within living memory. Still hasn’t taken in your case.
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