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Aella
@Aella_Girl
You get born in the year 1400, and live in a small town where everyone you know - family, friends, intellectual elites, leaders - all unambiguously, devoutly religious. Would you, through reason, eventually stop believing in this religion?
  • Very likely
    10.6%
  • Slightly likely
    15.1%
  • Slightly unlikely
    17.8%
  • Very unlikely
    56.5%
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@yashkaf
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all the disagreeable independent thoonkers answering "likely" to this will at the most have come up with a minor quibble about a random verse or the life of some saint and drive the local priest mad arguing about it for years
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@yashkaf
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a reminder that basically all the geniuses who invented modern skepticism: 1. lived from the mid-16th century onward, not in 1400 2. lived in big cities and read Aristotle, not in a small town 3. were still mostly pretty religious
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Olly 🌍
@ov_0117
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Yes but I would go mad at the same time. Being surrounded by people that believe strongly in something that basically makes no rational or reasonable sense to me would drive me insane.
Spookywood
@spookywood_net
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I answered very unlikely for this time period (even though I'm agnostic atheist now in a mostly Christian community) because I know how much the internet has helped me, and I am also factoring in how naïve I've been in the 21st century concerning religious phenomena.