The big breakthrough came with Christianity. This faith began as an esoteric Jewish sect that sought to convince Jews that Jesus of Nazareth was their long-awaited messiah. However, one of the sect’s first leaders, Paul of Tarsus, reasoned that if the supreme power of the universe has interests and biases, and if He had bothered to incarnate Himsel

Before science and philosophy could convince us that demons were only in our minds, magic itself needed to be devalued. Though theologians had been uneasy with magic for centuries, it wasn’t until the Reformation took the bold step of blurring the line between the sacred and profane that magic and superstition would begin its slow fade.

C’est aux chrétiens qu’il revint de sélectionner dans le code moral juif des morceaux de choix pour les transformer en commandements universels et les propager à travers le monde. En vérité, le christianisme s’est précisément scindé du judaïsme à ce propos. Alors que beaucoup de Juifs croient, aujourd’hui encore, que le « peuple élu » est plus proc

The reformation of Christianity