No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
People here argue about religion interminably but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental mind-shaping driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
