Between the years 460BC to 370BC there was a general belief system by the people of the world that:
1. diseases were from God.
2. That you must have sinned to suffer any sickness and
3. That falling sick is you atoning for those sins.
This belief system endured for years, decades and century until Hippocrates the settled father of medicine came to challenge that wrong belief looking the color of normal.
Hippocrates was the first person to challenge the "sacred disease" theory by showing evidence how diseases are as a result of natural cause(s) rather than punishment from god(s). he went on to show that it was as a result of our immune system not being able to fight exposure to things like germs, viruses and other disease carrying organisms.
Now fast forward to few centuries after. In the days after 29 November 1781 the Gregson slave syndicate based In Liverpool sailed their ship from Present day Ghana carrying with them 133 slaves onboard Zong ship. The slave masters took out insurance on the lives of this slaves should they die en route, when it was calculated that their death was worth more than their being alive and sold into slavery, the ship crew decided to throw these slaves into the Ocean.
The matter among all other things before Lord Mansfield the Chief Justice of England as he then was, was whether or not it was lawful in commercial law to destroy your property in order to cash out on insurance and not even Whether or not it was lawful to kill another man.
The ship owners contended that the abolitionists group were being silly to say that a slave is worth more than a mere commodity like Gold and horse they quoted scriptures like Leviticus 25: 44 - 46 and Ephesians 6:5 and Exodus 21:20-21.
It took Lord Mansfield serious crisis of conscience to stand against the slave traders that dictated the music of the then commercial world in England and the whole of Europe.
Fast forward to the present day, no matter how much of Bible or Qur'anic verse(s) support slave trade we just can't help but to frown against it.
In the years proceeding 451BC Democracy was a lousy concept in Europe and the world because people believed God make kings and a ruler and his bloodline has been ordained from God, no wonder today we call royals (blue bloods because we once believed their blood was different) so to stand for democracy (a fair representation of the opinion of the masses in decision making) was a direct affront to the supposed Will of God.
Well, It took the Athenians slightly over 100 years to prove to the world that democracy is not so much of a bad business and here we are today fellas.
In similar vein, between 1939 down until about 1964 there was a general belief network that painful childbirth was ordained by God and that in fact it has its advantages as it strikes a relationship between a mother and a child and that anyone who escapes that pain using Epidural anaesthesia or any other form of operation or drug wouldn't have that relationship or to put it mildly, a loving relationship with the child.
it took many researches leading up to ones like the "Obstetrical dilemma" and "Hominim evolution" for stories like the "Adam and eve" and the "childbirth-pain and bond" myths to be put into doubt.
Now young Ebuka Ikeorah is thinking, would the society later accept feminism and play a Nelsonian eye to social and cultural restraints?
Would society finally accept homosexuality?
Would society reason again or would society believe and believe even stronger.
Can some things ever change?
Have a good night rest.
