The Vast Range of Human Experience

The Lovely One and were talking about King Noah’s people–they fled leaving their women and children behind at one point–at another point they sent their daughters out to meet with a hostile army–and the only conclusion we came to is that they seemed to have no concept of chivalry.  There is possible counter evidence, like the text of the Title of Liberty, but it still seems to be true.

Now, many say that chivalry is a Western invention, and though I don’t entirely believe that to be true, I guess there’s something to it.

Which means your primary experience in reading the Old Testament and also the Book of Mormon, when running across something hard to understand, is a sense of the eerie and of awe:  that people can be so different from you; that they are nonetheless objects of God’s justice and mercy.

Shoot, you should probably take the same position for anything pre-1940.  We should take C.S. Lewis seriously when he says he grew up in a different world than the one he died in.