User blog comment:Fimber/Why I understand Uther's reasons for banning magic - and why no one is a saint on "Merlin"/@comment-4814726-20120628000258/@comment-4814726-20120628203520

In regard to the Old Religion, there's this quote in a book about Wicca, but can apply to MERLIN world I think.

"Deities didn't exist before our ancestors acknowledgement of them. However, the energies behind them did; they created us. Early worshippers recognized these forces as the Goddess and the God, personifying them in an attempt to understand them." -pg 10 from Wicca A guide for the solitary practicioner by Scott Cunningham

In mERLIN world, we haven't seen any talk about higher powers determining destinies, weve gotten a few mentions of God and gods. But most of all we've gotten that magic is the very essenec of the earth. And it fuels life and all that spirity stuff. So if magic is the energy that is behind all creation in merlin world, then it cannot be bad. Is the world in and of itself bad???

Energy can be used for anything, by anyone. It can either be use to make a nuclear bomb, or it can b used to build a world-sustaining solar power plant. It is nt the powers fault if some idiot decides to use it for something bad. And in thsmedeval time period, thats to be expected since there's so much discrimination, hatred, war, and greed amongst the rulers and the people. Not to mention people aren't as smart back then, they didnt know about a lot of things that we do now.

Arthur is supposed to bring about the new era of lovableness and caringness and heavenly like stuff to Albion. 'the darkest hour is just before the dawn' (in merlin world) So maybe the people would be darker before then too.