And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. Doubtful scraps of Arianism. The New Testament description of the crucifixion and the attending circumstances, even to the earthquake and darkness, was thus anticipated by five centuries. It is impossible to pass from the Synoptic Gospels to that of St. John without feeling that the transition involves the passage from one world of thought to another. No familiarity with the general teaching of the Gospels, no wide conception of the character of the Savior, is sufficient to destroy the contrast which exists in form and spirit between the earlier and later narratives.
Finnish anthropologist Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. The strong adapt by changing the world, the weak by changing themselves. The weak look inward at desires, outward at possibilities of gratification, measure the danger, find the risk to be high, and try to bring things in line by reducing their needs. The unafraid leap into the fray, seize such power as they can, move things around, rearrange the world to fit their needs. The guises of power are so various, so dissembled that power ceases to be recognized as such.