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Re:Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave by kansaswriter on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:35PM (#37485560)
I was interested by the mention of a "counter-reformation" in the story and increase in sermons and homilies about death that led to some of these beliefs. It made me think of movements today like Q'Anon that are detached from traditional religion but involve some of the same characteristics -- and obviously some false, macabre beliefs.
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Re:Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave by OfSanguineFire on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @04:28PM (#37487729)
The Counter-Reformation[0] is a massive part of European history (and, through European colonial expansion, world history). It’s rather surprising you’ve never heard of it. That said, both sides in the Counter-Reformation held the same belief in the supernatural, they just differed on details.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation

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