In recent times, there has been a trend in the popular media towards viewing past events and people through the prism of present-day attitudes. This trend is manifested in attempts to ‘cancel’ the past, including by silencing various discussions, banning books, tearing down statues and so on. In historical and literary analysis, presentism is a […]
The presentism fallacy — The Logical Place
And this, I might point out, comes from an atheist…