(September 16, 2022 at 7:58 am)Angrboda Wrote: That being said, not all of the things we've adopted in our modernity are an improvement over the way things had been.
That's why I said that he makes a sentimental plea and there is some truth in that sentiment, but that doesn't mean that faeries exist.
But it is also absurd that he makes a plea to the times when people lived in villages as some sort of genuine human experience because people who lived in villages did so because they ran away from living in forests and other wilderness, just as people of "today" ran away from villages to live in cities (or modernized villages). And they all had good reasons for running.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
