Posted: Apr 12, 2017 12:35 pm
Scot Dutchy wrote:Calilasseia wrote:Personally, I find it far more worrying, that people in the 21st century still regard this 12th century drivel about "demons", to be something other than the product of an uneducated, scientifically unaware era, than the psychiatric illnesses whose symptoms almost certainly led to the fabrication of this concept in the first place. Furthermore, febrile adherence to this ridiculous idea in a modern, scientific era, is probably indicative itself, of an even more florid psychiatric illness than those leading the gullible of the past to invent this nonsense.
Cali you hoping for too much. You would have to ban all sci-fi and horror films.
Most devotees thereof I'm in contact with know the distinction between fiction and fact. There'll always be a need for entertainment to keep us humans happy. Plus, the genres in question are frequently pressed into service as vehicles for social critique. A good example from the Stephen King stable is Dolores Claiborne.
Scot Dutchy wrote:The dimwitted amongst us think that is even real life.
If we allowed our actions to be dictated by the stupidity of the bottom tier, we'd never get anywhere.