amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
I ask this because people in the past clearly lived closer to the bone, and so many modern criticisms of faith did not exist. This probably applies broadly to a great selection of faiths, but I suppose in asking this, I am focused on Abrahamic faiths.
As one example of faith over matter, some people in our modern times have had an impulse to refuse modern medical care, (as opposed to faith healing) it's been in the news a few times I think. In the middle ages, no one would criticize you for that. And furthermore, the modern fear we experience when thinking about death would be severely excoriated, as we have it on record that pre-modern people literally saw tumors and lion's teeth as forms of divine supplication.
Another is the fact that you will possibly be able to live a truly humble life, and will toil as close to the earth as Adam ever did. One needn't quote the many remarks about how necessary this is to piety, that you be simple, humble, and meek. Your simple and hard life among the oxen and chickens would not make your mind fertile for sin, and you may even have the opportunity to become a construction worker on a large church. Instead of this, you likely lead a highly distracted life dominated by tv, the internet, temptation, gridlock etc. etc.
As one example of faith over matter, some people in our modern times have had an impulse to refuse modern medical care, (as opposed to faith healing) it's been in the news a few times I think. In the middle ages, no one would criticize you for that. And furthermore, the modern fear we experience when thinking about death would be severely excoriated, as we have it on record that pre-modern people literally saw tumors and lion's teeth as forms of divine supplication.
Another is the fact that you will possibly be able to live a truly humble life, and will toil as close to the earth as Adam ever did. One needn't quote the many remarks about how necessary this is to piety, that you be simple, humble, and meek. Your simple and hard life among the oxen and chickens would not make your mind fertile for sin, and you may even have the opportunity to become a construction worker on a large church. Instead of this, you likely lead a highly distracted life dominated by tv, the internet, temptation, gridlock etc. etc.
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