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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I've heard it said that the consideration of everything white/light as something positive and everything black/dark to be something seen as negative is an example of unconcious bias eg white lie, white witch v blackmail, unlucky black cat etc.
In fact, colour prejudice even extends to cats, black cats are notoriously harder to rehome according to animal shelters!
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After the incident where an American cop was filmed beating up a black man back in the 1990's, she said "I don't like them, but I think that they should be fair with them".
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...and the night will have traditionally been seen as dangerous many years ago as that's when predators are about.
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Unconscious bias? What complete and utter nonsense the whole thing is.
The notion of Light=Good and Dark=Bad, has been around for thousands of years, and many parts of the world.
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Some scholars believe that key concepts of Zoroastrian eschatology and demonology influenced the Abrahamic religions. On the other hand, Zoroastrianism itself inherited ideas from other belief systems and, like other "practiced" religions, accommodates some degree of syncretism, with Zoroastrianism in Sogdia, the Kushan Empire, Armenia, China, and other places incorporating local and foreign practices and deities. Zoroastrian influences on Hungarian, Slavic, Ossetian, Turkic and Mongol mythologies have also been noted, all of which bearing extensive light-dark dualisms and possible sun god theonyms related to Hvare-khshaeta
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The phrase "hell is utter darkness" is in Exodus of the Old Testament.