This was the era in which masses were done primarily in latin.
What is the relevance here? The masses were primarily done in Latin up until the 1960s. This enabled people to participate in Mass no matter where they were, even if they were traveling to a strange place where people spoke a different language. The sermons, however, were done in the vernacular. What does this have to do with your claim that people in the middle ages were more bigoted etc. than they are today?
During the Middle Ages, torture was considered a successful way to extract information. Go HERE AND HERE.
Torture is widely considered a successful way to extract information today. Go anywhere online where they're talking about popular fiction or games that involve torture ("enhanced interrogation") and tell them that it's not a good way to get information. You'll see them pouring out of the woodwork to tell you that it is.
The fact that people in the Middle Ages did torture does not show that people back then were more bigoted than they are today, given that we also do torture, including many forms of torture that we don't necessarily call torture, such as extended solitary confinement.
The question is were they more racist than we are now? No. About the same.
I was specifically disagreeing with your claim in your previous comment that they were more so.
I'm guessing you loved Catherine Called Birdy? I fell asleep during it.
I don't know why you'd think I have an opinion on it. I haven't even mentioned it, nor watched it. I read the book once as a child.
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Date: 2022-10-23 11:49 pm (UTC)What is the relevance here? The masses were primarily done in Latin up until the 1960s. This enabled people to participate in Mass no matter where they were, even if they were traveling to a strange place where people spoke a different language. The sermons, however, were done in the vernacular. What does this have to do with your claim that people in the middle ages were more bigoted etc. than they are today?
During the Middle Ages, torture was considered a successful way to extract information. Go HERE AND HERE.
Torture is widely considered a successful way to extract information today. Go anywhere online where they're talking about popular fiction or games that involve torture ("enhanced interrogation") and tell them that it's not a good way to get information. You'll see them pouring out of the woodwork to tell you that it is.
The fact that people in the Middle Ages did torture does not show that people back then were more bigoted than they are today, given that we also do torture, including many forms of torture that we don't necessarily call torture, such as extended solitary confinement.
The question is were they more racist than we are now? No. About the same.
I was specifically disagreeing with your claim in your previous comment that they were more so.
I'm guessing you loved Catherine Called Birdy? I fell asleep during it.
I don't know why you'd think I have an opinion on it. I haven't even mentioned it, nor watched it. I read the book once as a child.