Lower than the Angels Quotes

“Everyone confronting the unfamiliar, inside or outside a religious system, has a duty of enquiry and exploration, as a means of combating fear. Fear is generally fear of the unknown. Knowledge is like a medicine to soothe a fever; in particular, proper knowledge of the past is a medicine for intellectual fevers contracted from prejudiced views of history.”
― Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity