The New York Times recently published a comment article by Katya Ungerman titled “We Are Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages”. The piece explored the increasingly widespread belief that “life feels, to many, increasingly charged with unseen forces”.
Characterising this trend with the secular slur “medieval” negatively implies that belief in the supernatural contradicts progress or reason. Ungerman also offensively equates belief in religion with the occult, extraterrestrial life and conspiratorial paranoia.
