George Bernard Shaw "argued that moderns are no less inclined to accept incomprehensible miracles on faith than were [Joan of Arc's] supporters and enemies. It’

George Bernard Shaw "argued that moderns are no less inclined to accept incomprehensible miracles on faith than were [Joan of Arc's] supporters and enemies. It’s only the flavor of the miracles which has changed. ``Our credulity, though enormous, is not boundless; and our stock of it is quite used up by our mediums, clairvoyants, hand readers, slate writers, Christian Scientists, psycho-analysts, electronic vibration diviners, therapeutists of all schools registered and unregistered, astrologers, astronomers who tell us that the sun is nearly a hundred million miles away and the Betelgeuse is ten times as big as the whole universe, physicists who balance Betelgeuse by describing the incredible smallness of the atom, and a host of other marvel mongers whose credulity would have dissolved the Middle Ages in a roar of sceptical merriment. In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat [Shaw was mistaken in this common belief], for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.'' " https://www.skeptic.com/insight/george-orwell-versus-the-flat-earth/ https://www.skeptic.com/insight/george-orwell-versus-the-fla...