Dear reverend sirs and madam of the Religion and Spirituality section...?

In the days of past, when the European man was in a dark transition betwixt the civilisation of Rome and Greece and the rebirth of that same civilisation in the Renaissance, the common man, the knavish, illiterate farmer, would see God’s word printed upon the heavens, in every single cloud or star, or see the works of witches, warlocks, goblins and mischievous and idle demons, quite bored with hell and its infinite tortures and screams, in every misfortune that befell him, let it be his crops failing, his tools broke, etc. If the physiognomy of yonder old women suggest something more sinister then an aged women, she must be, then, an evil witch, consorting and copulating with the devil, if the eyes of yonder man be a bit odd, he must be evil and in league with Satan. Have we truly changed from this idiotic and imbecilic savage, who some here might even consider to be an ancestor of some sort?