praise of folly
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Desiderius Erasmus December 27, 1521
I must follow up on your script of The Praise of Folly. Although our views may be different I can honestly understand where you were standing when you had presented this script. The Praise of Folly is truly an understanding of the lack of sense that many followers have of a religion that is of their norm. The script does go into great detail of simply riding the question of who is really foolish. Do you suppose that the followers of Christianity are the foolish persons? Why is this? So are you not foolish since you follow the religion of Christianity? Or is it because you are a humanist, i.e. a man who preferred to study things human rather than divine, literature rather than theology?..