Dragons:did they exist? (kinda long but interesting)

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Reality can not be altered. What is real is not up for debate. Only your perception of it can be altered. Your senses are lies. Every thing you see, hear, touch, taste and feel are a mental construct. There is no personal truth. There is truth/reality and your perception. However close your perception is to the truth improves your understanding of reality.
You're basically arguing that reality is individual and we know it is not, you're also suggesting that a consensus of belief alters reality and is does not.
its interesting that you quote Socrates and then start spouting non-constructionist arguments.

Also before you criticize Christians for the Inquisition its worth noting it only existed in Spain and was a tool of the crown to eradicate the Jewish and Muslim population which had previously taken over Spain. It was also a corrupt institution backed by a corrupt pope that should never have been appointed. Also if we're going to talk about oppressive religions: Islam-Be Muslim or we'll enslave and/or kill you. Judaism-Let's go over there and cut those kids' penises up and kill them cause God demands it.
They're all the same.