How to select which supernatural to believe?

[WinterHold]

Look, accusing the preacher with "insanity" is as ancient as hell, it's even a given fact in the Quran:




So..meh Boru.

I agree that accusing preachers of insanity (or at the very least, being mentally aberrant) is a very, very old tradition. 

Why do you think that is?

Boru

I remind you with the story of Galileo, who was accused of "heresy" for believing that earth was not actually the immovable centre of the universe:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist...-of-heresy

This was the second time that Galileo was in the hot seat for refusing to accept Church orthodoxy that the Earth was the immovable center of the universe: In 1616, he had been forbidden from holding or defending his beliefs. In the 1633 interrogation, Galileo denied that he “held” belief in the Copernican view but continued to write about the issue and evidence as a means of “discussion” rather than belief. The Church had decided the idea that the sun moved around the Earth was an absolute fact of scripture that could not be disputed, despite the fact that scientists had known for centuries that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

Whenever somebody comes to the mainstream with a belief outside the box, the masses jump to stone him, burn him at the stake or simply calling him insane; mad; pariah.