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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      People often imagine that when society was strongly Christian in premodern times, people were more spiritual and focused on virtue. This is almost certainly a misconception brought about by it being largely religious texts which have survived.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      This indicates that religion was the thing which it was considered most acceptable to write about & writing also being something which was done mostly by monks & priests and nuns. Thus an inordinate amount of sermons, treatises, homilies etc survive in relation to everything else

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      This is very unlikely to reflect the balance of interests of the average person. Social historians can gather this from what the sermons were about - very often they were about people being too concerned with things of the world and not the state of their soul.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          Sermons telling men to stop playing dice, drinking in taverns, circulating bawdy songs & stories & attend church more regularly and those telling women to stop caring about clothes, spending too much time with friends & talking throughout church show that people don't change much

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          Lots of sermons about the dangers of vice in the form of cockfights, wrestling, dancing, comedic theatre, festivals rooted largely in paganism (but mostly just a piss-up) show that people were spending a great deal of their spare time not at church.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          There was also considerable focus on work. Women were expected to attend church much more than men, particularly in agricultural areas which was most areas, because men were expected to be working a lot in daylight whilst women worked at home often alone.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          There is some reason to think that this expectation was not appreciated by women but quite possibly engineered by them. Not just services. Many church activities including social events & cleaning it & decorating it were run by women. This was a social life.

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          There seems to have been a strange thing in the late medieval period (possibly earlier too but this is my area) where it was not understood that women can get lonely & like to talk to other women. Many sermons telling them to stop going to each others houses all the time.

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          Telling them to stay in and do their work and wait for their husbands. Much suspicion of women who just went to other women's houses for a cup of tea (OK, tea wasn;t a thing but you know what I mean) Seen as dereliction of duty & gossiping (which was bad esp if abt husbands)

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        8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          The church was a way women authorised getting together & having a chat. Records showing charges laid against parishioners & punished with fines include a lot of women being charged with talking through sermons, almost no men. Men more likely to be charged with not going to church

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        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          Men, who more often worked outside the house, usually had plenty of male company. They could go to taverns too. Women needed to find ways to get together without being accused of neglecting their work, being frivolous, flighty or gossiping, Church was the acceptable way.

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        10. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          And so, there are records of so many, seemingly quite unnecessary meetings of women at the church to discuss things like making a new scarf for the statue of Mary and then getting together to do it. Very slowly, I suspect.

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        11. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          I miss medieval history.

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        2. Dermot O'Sullivan‏ @derryborndo Apr 2
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          There is a Koranic sura admonishing the followers not to go off for a booze-up in someone's wedding when Muhammad is delivering a homily. 1 of 2 cases I can think of in that book's inadvertent humour.

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        3. Kamran Rahman‏ @KamranRahman Apr 2
          Replying to @derryborndo @HPluckrose

          Really? I’ve read the Quran many times and don’t recall such a surah. Perhaps you could quote it?

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        4. Dermot O'Sullivan‏ @derryborndo Apr 2
          Replying to @KamranRahman @HPluckrose

          Pickthall's translation, if memory serves, has a footnote referring to the hadith which gives the asbab al-nuzul for this story: OC, the book gives many examples of Muhammad being mocked e.g. he is "insane" in 15:6.

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        5. Kamran Rahman‏ @KamranRahman Apr 2
          Replying to @derryborndo @HPluckrose

          Thanks for ur reply. As I thought, there’s no Quranic surah as alleged in ur original tweet... many a tweet posted in haste... without checking the facts 🤦🏽‍♂️

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        6. Dermot O'Sullivan‏ @derryborndo Apr 3
          Replying to @KamranRahman @HPluckrose

          No, wrong. Go and find out for yourself, and I do not appreciate your rudeness.

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        7. Kamran Rahman‏ @KamranRahman Apr 3
          Replying to @derryborndo @HPluckrose

          ha ha! ur upset cos u got busted posting something fake on twitter. U say I'm rude, but u didn't have the politeness to say "I'm sorry, ur right, I got it wrong, there is no such Quranic surah" I suggest u go find out for yourself what humility, contrition and manners are

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        8. Dermot O'Sullivan‏ @derryborndo Apr 3
          Replying to @KamranRahman @HPluckrose

          I am not in the habit of making things up. I observe that you ignore my point about Koran 15:6 and the many other pericopes which show Mo being mocked. Life is too short to waste on apologists who ignore the evidence in front of them. So, you're blocked.

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