(Originally written September 7, 2005 in Book 2)
Why I am not a Christian
Bertrand Russell
1957
Life in the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages were rude, knightly and pious.
The people of the Middle Ages enjoyed brutal spectacles of torture and death. Death was inevitable so it should become commonplace. At the same time the aristocratic society came up with chivalry to pass the otherwise mundane time away. It was an interesting balance of piety and barbarism.
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