It’s one of our illusions that we all inhabit the same world. In a sense we do, but in many essentials, we don’t. We may be standing next to each other on the same escalator or subway platform, but some of us have our feet firmly planted in the 12th century. It complicates matters that the 21st century itself may be in the process of flipping numbers and reverting to the 12th century.
Not a good idea. Even without weapons of mass destruction, the High Middle Ages were pretty grim. With weapons of mass destruction they could be calamitous.
People who sincerely believe that tolerance is a virtue share the planet with people who just as sincerely believe that it’s a sin. While Christian Europe frets that it may be insufficiently tolerant, militant Islam worries that it hasn’t placated Allah enough through istishhad (martyrdom.)
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