Sentences with phrase «anything ancient people»
Reality is far more awe inspiring than anything ancient people have invented.
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The claim was a simple thing to do in ancient times because scientifically ignorant people still did not know why the sun rose and set and why the seasons changed and why lightning and why thunder and why earthquakes and why disease and why just about anything... so people all thought that a god or gods controlled it all.
Nor have I anything to say about cultures or peoples who have not suffered the history of faith and disenchantment we have, or who do not share our particular relation to European antiquity or the heritage of ancient Christendom.
One of the worst things about the religious people is that they think that because science can't give you all the answers immediately that an ancient book is the obvious fill - in for anything missing.
Someone could organise a competition, to see what people could do without using anything our ancient ancestors would have lacked.