Conservative. Tennessee (now). Ex-Idaho. Software engineer. Historian. Trying to prevent Idiocracy from becoming a documentary.
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"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." -- Rom. 8:28
Let me explain that when an inanimate object is confiscated (often for being a prohibited item), the suit is against the object. Medieval Europeans sometimes "executed" trees if someone fell from the tree and died.
According to the other Idaho blogger I regularly read, Joe Huffman of View from North Central Idaho, medieval monks used to whip trees that were not producing well. He called it a Deodand, as I remember. The Anthropomorphism of things was not just something pre-Christian Pagans did, nor, as today, what the people bringing the case you cite would call the religiously superstitious.
According to the other Idaho blogger I regularly read, Joe Huffman of View from North Central Idaho, medieval monks used to whip trees that were not producing well. He called it a Deodand, as I remember.
ReplyDeleteThe Anthropomorphism of things was not just something pre-Christian Pagans did, nor, as today, what the people bringing the case you cite would call the religiously superstitious.