Interesting thoughts on the role of Religion in the Middle East and The Mechanistic Fallacy

https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-mechanistic-fallacy-why-the-west-so-often-fails-at-geo-politics/

A good article. I saw it a couple of days ago and was going to blog about it. It echoes my old concerns when teaching mediaeval history and mediaeval philosophy and trying to make it understandable: how does one do it in the more-secular-than-thou attitudes championed by the modern quackademy?

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