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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5654987" data-attributes="member: 42169">Ok.. I'm not going to quote because answering the questions based on the quotes is derailing my thought process. I assume this world exists like the one in Neil Gaimen's  American Gods and Terry Gilliam's movie the Adventures of Barron Munchausen.  Meaning that the supernatural exists but the forces of civilization (largely reason) and the abandonment of belief weakens the strength of the supernatural and hinder's its ability to function.What this means is that:Nature spirits, the "Manitous", and the Gods themselves exist and have never retreated;; however, as a result of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment, people are in the process of abandoning them in favor of science, reason, and logic.  As such, the powers of the supernatural seem to be diminishing.  As for believing in a supernatural history, "Logic and reason dictates that everything can be explain by science.   That which cannot either does not exist, cannot or did not occur, was a figment of an individual's imagination, or should be relegated to myth, legend, tall-tales, and superstition.  Only romantics, heathens, primitives, the superstitious, or the ignorant would believe in the existence of the supernatural."In public, most "civilized/enlightened" people will tend to err on the side of skepticism over any talk about supernatura; however, in private many believe the supernatural possible.</blockquote>

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