Disbelief 101 by S. C. Hitchcock

Author:S. C. Hitchcock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: See Sharp Press
Published: 2012-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

Likewise, Norman Cantor writes in his book, In the Wake of the Plague, about the Black Death of 1348–1349: “Inevitably, medieval physicians attributed the onset of the disease to God’s punishment for sin.” (p. 23)

The Europeans knew nothing of germs and believed that sickness and disease were expressions of the Wrath of God. This leads to a philosophical paradigm that looks something like this:

Truth: Disease is the Wrath of God.

Therefore: Anyone who gets sick from a plague must be wicked and deserves their sickness.

Therefore: If much of the city is sick, then the city must be wicked.

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