thread: 2011-07-11 : Hooray for Religion
On 2011-07-18, cc wrote:
I'm not really convinced by the nutjob argument. I mean, I think most people, including most religious people, would look at people like the stylites, whe spent years sitting on a pillar, as probably being mentally disturbed to some degree. And I would pretty much agree with that. But then on the other hand you get fairly broad movements like the flagellants in the C14th, and a mass outbreak of clinical insanity seems a pretty weak explanation for that sort of phenomenon.
