"One grand example is the eclipse, where the masses show no awareness of the correct explanation, but respond instead with horrible fear at the dire omen, even clanging pots to scare away the monsters eating the sky, or to confuse the spells of the wizards and witches who were working their awful magic. Does this sound like the kind of people, or the kind of age, whose records of the incredible can ever be trusted?"
~ Richard Carrier
~ Richard Carrier