Defence of Witchcraft Belief is a wonderful book, thoroughly covering a lot of ground that is pertinent to the belief in witchcraft in the late sixteenth century. The time period, theologically and politically, was a very nuanced and difficult area of study, sufficient that professors have dedicated entire lives to the study thereof.
What did you believe when you were young that you later learned was false? I used to believe in Santa Claus. But a more profound example of something I no longer believe, that pervasively lasts through many adulthoods in Western civilization, is the Judaic Old Testament’s “chosen race” philosophy. I’m not sure that I or […]