To: FLOutdoorsman
"The colonizers of Easter Island had decided that the strange language was too closely tied to the inhabitants' pagan past, and forbade it as a form of communication."
As with the destruction of Mayan/Aztec texts, the arrogance of received religion claimed another victim.
3 posted on
12/27/2006 10:30:21 PM PST by
gcruse
(http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
To: gcruse
yup. thought the same thing. religious zealots suck.
To: gcruse
As with the destruction of Mayan/Aztec texts, the arrogance of received religion claimed another victim.
Oh please. Philology owes an enormous debt to the Christian "received" religion. Without Irish monks, Greek monks, and Italian bishops, we would have only a tiny fraction of the ancient literature that has come down to us.
And what, pray tell, is the track-record of "atheist" philology, anyway?
27 posted on
12/28/2006 9:10:40 PM PST by
Antoninus
( Rudy McRomney as the GOP nominee = President Hillary. Why else do you think the media loves them?)
To: gcruse
Well, the arrogance of misguided fanatics anyway.
35 posted on
12/29/2006 8:08:24 AM PST by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: gcruse
Gee I wish we were all like Mayan's. Pass the knife, I can do this heart in 4 seconds. /sarcasm
37 posted on
12/29/2006 8:15:03 AM PST by
bmwcyle
(I believe in Jesus Christ, the reason for the season.)
To: gcruse
The Mayan texts were produced by practitioners of received religion.
49 posted on
12/29/2006 7:55:17 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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