LadyEllen
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Christianity alone has taken us at least 500 years behind were we could be, socially and technologically. What's your evidence for this statement? CuriousExplorer gave an answer on this -but only a partial answer, without detailing the earlier desecration. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans et al had the most amazing technologies. They were also literate, and recorded a lot of information about their achievements. To cut a long story short and to isolate the one single incidence which did the greatest damage in retarding mankind; a great library was built at Alexandria - one of many in the ancient world, but by all accounts the greatest. Along with the other such lesser libraries, the great library at Alexandria was destroyed and burnt to the ground, along with thousands, maybe millions of texts, detailing amongst them such knowledge as that the earth is round and orbits the sun and even the likes of steam engines. What was undoubtedly in the library we know from discoveries of surviving texts - what else was in the library we can only imagine. The Christians destroyed these libraries for the reason that being associated with pagan deities and culture, they had to be destroyed along with every other element of the ancient religions - being clearly inspired by the devil to lead man astray. That much of what the ancients had learned also showed the Biblical account to be utterly incompatible with reality was an added bonus. Notably though, the Christians did take to some ancient philosophies which agreed with the Bible or could at least be inferred from the Bible. Given that the libraries et al were destroyed in the first centuries AD, and that it took us until the 17th century to begin to find out for ourselves all the knowledge possessed by the ancients, I feel that 500 years as a posited period of retardation is very generous indeed. I would put it at closer to 2000 years - to include not only the period from the destruction to the 17th century but to also take into account the loss of knowledge gained in the centuries prior to the destruction. It is this kind of thing which tells me that the Church is a criminal organisation, and has been since its institution as imperial religion in the Roman empire, not only akin to the German Nazi party and Stalinist regime which it inspired, but the originator of thought control. The countless thousands, maybe millions, who have suffered and died in their efforts to control thought, the wanton destruction of so many achievements and the outright theft of everything from land to culture which it has perpetrated in its history, make it public enemy number one. Forget Osama Bin Laden - he's done nothing by comparison - and is, paradoxically, of the religion which maintained much of the ancient knowledge in the centuries following the Christian's efforts to destroy it. E
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