It harks back to a time when god wasn't loving but a capricious god that would destroy your crops, kill your cattle or bring on pestilence if not appeased, when god was worshipped out of fear not love.
Basically god was the equivalent of not walking under ladders for the vast swathe of believers, a superstition.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/flagellants.htm
Basically god was the equivalent of not walking under ladders for the vast swathe of believers, a superstition.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/flagellants.htm
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
