I think that there are historical phenomena for which materialist explanations do not work well (the witch craze may or may not be one, I don't know). Anti-semitism is one of them.
--- andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> When we talk about explanations for a phenomenon
> like
> the European witch craze it is unscientific and
> ninmaterialist to attribute, except as a proximate
> cause, to fear of the Devil -- obvious ideological,
> which doesn't mean phony, but requires an
> explanation
> -- or an inexplicable attack of misogynistic mass
> murder.
>
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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