RE: Religion in the Middle Ages
April 27, 2015 at 8:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 8:31 pm by Regina.)
I don't think the world would be any better today if the middle ages didn't happen how they happened. Maybe we just wouldn't have the Republican-ite dregs of society who are trying to cling onto the good old times.
In fact because of it, we now know what totalitarianism with a fanatic "divine" face looks like. I'd like to think we've learned lessons from it. We can compare our society today to how it used to be, and we know better how to treat people because of it. We can be more careful about letting lunatics with un-checked power go unchallenged.
I see it almost as a necessary stage in the development of human civilisation, almost an experimental phase. It doesn't make it right and it's a shame for the people who lived during that time. However, at least we can use it today as a model of a society we definitely don't want to be living in.
In fact because of it, we now know what totalitarianism with a fanatic "divine" face looks like. I'd like to think we've learned lessons from it. We can compare our society today to how it used to be, and we know better how to treat people because of it. We can be more careful about letting lunatics with un-checked power go unchallenged.
I see it almost as a necessary stage in the development of human civilisation, almost an experimental phase. It doesn't make it right and it's a shame for the people who lived during that time. However, at least we can use it today as a model of a society we definitely don't want to be living in.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
