RE: The Current Evolution of Ancient Religious Institutions
November 19, 2023 at 8:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2023 at 8:31 am by Fake Messiah.)
People in medieval times didn't need to be educated because that way they were more easily exploited by the aristocracy and the Church to whom they were pretty much slaves. So they certainly needed to be kept ignorant so that they don't learn how to think. Which tells you what kind of time it was.
And yet, despite that, there were numerous peasant revolts where hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered.
And yet, despite that, there were numerous peasant revolts where hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered.
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"
