ENGL 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dream Vision, Universal Joint, Micrographia
28 Jan 2013
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Simply part of their social culture that god exists; there was no questioning his existence. Everyone believed that jesus was both human and divine, and that he died to absolve human sin. Sermons were the bestsellers of the day better than newspapers, novels, etc. Sermons were always depended on by booksellers to sell. Religion was a natural part of everybody"s life; nearly 100% of great britain was religious of some sort. A little percentage (tiny) of the population were jewish. Atheists were regarded as stupid or crazy, whereas almost no one was agnostic. For some, church was just something in their life, for others, church was part of their lives. Science didn"t really happen until late 19th century. 18th century science felt that science created god (still a sort of form of worship) Those who studied new science were not taken seriously, but they were not antagonized.
