RE: Hell Houses (AKA: Hallelujah Houses, Heaven or Hell, Christian Haunted House, etc.)
December 3, 2014 at 12:21 pm
It wouldn't surprise me if some found it in bad taste and simply kept their opinion quiet because they weren't sure it would be received well. In fact, it's possible that most people did so, believing that they were in the minority opinion at the time. It's a common, if quirky, human behavior. People tend to tolerate the louder and most extreme factions in their midst because they believe that they are more popular than they really are.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
