Question

What prompted the implementation of social control during this historical time in Europe as explained in the Burning Times video
https://www.nfb.ca/film/burning_times/

Answer 1

As we know, ancient European culture was influenced by Greek ideologies, Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato were the founder of ancient western culture. The beginning of Christian ideology was influenced by Greek ideologies but later it tilted towards magic, blind faiths, and myths. This was the beginning of a moral decline in Europe. Churches played a crucial role to develop witch hunting, magic and black myths. Churches were male dominant so they targeted females, they developed a phenomenon by which people started to believe in the good soul and bad soul, churches conditioned the behavior of the society to make a control over it. Lack of political influence and leadership, religious leaders controlled the society on behalf of churches and myths.

The social control in Europe was in the hand of Churches, Witch hunters, magicians, and religious leaders. They influenced and controlled European society for a long time as well as provided a good space to develop science and technology.

Medieval Europe was living in the Dark Age, people are not believing in religion, they were just believing in the falsification of religious teachings spread by many churches. The church became the center of social structure, they were controlling people but showing a negative attitude against women. European society developed many myths against women because religious leaders provided false definitions of Christianity.

The documentary is showing the contemporary situations of Europe as well as how blind faith changed the destiny of Europe for a long time. How people of Europe forgot their main ideals and beliefs and trapped in conditioned diaspora made by churches and religious leaders.