Posted on 01/21/2016 6:54:33 AM PST by C19fan
Nicely written.
The aqueducts?
The title, “Religious Schools...” is such a loose descriptive, employed when the writer is either concerned with political correctness or else is lazy. It is akin to the phrase, “those people” and requires the same amount of thought and intellectual capacity as does the use of the “F-bomb” by 13 year olds and Hollywood writers.
A more enlightening title might have said, “Educational institutions which prohibit open inquiry, vigorous discussion and sound logic led to the decline of **** science. Often, “religious schools” are in this category, but that religion may be Islam or it may be Secularism or it may be the religion of “Settled Science”.
George Washington Carver once asked God to “show me the secrets of the Universe”. He said that God replied, “No, but I will show you the secret of the peanut.”
Isaac Newton said these things:
“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.”
“No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.”
“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.”
Who was fighting them, The Peoples' Front of Judea, or The Judean Peoples' Front?
Actually, the Maccabees and the Zealots both did a number on the Roman Legions sent down there. That is why the Roman Empire eventually sent Titus, to annihilate them.
This tied down at least five legions, and weakened Roman forces all over Europe.
The use of car horns in Sierra Leone also works as a hello to other drivers, a signal to pedestrians that a cab or okada is available, and as a pejorative comment on other drivers.
Very flexible communication device.
Arabs doing what they do now, using other's inventions and discoveries.
The Western Empire was gone before Mohammed was born. The eastern Empire endured until 1453 and was, indeed, destroyed by Mohammedans, but it was a slow death.
God bless our Eatern Orthodox brothers who entered formal schism toward the middle of the 11th century... Accounting for about 15% of the time frame discussed here.
Our disagreements aside... I’m sure their monks weren’t exactly passing around their hand written bibles to strangers either.
There is no actual proof of “intellectual flowering” at any point or period of Arab/Muslim history.
There is evidence of intellectual material from conquered nations being translated into Arab and then claimed as Arab invention.
In fact, that still goes on today. It was only a handful of years ago that a fatwah was issued declaring the telephone an Arab invention since telephones existed in Arab lands and the manuals had been translated into Arab.
That’s how it’s always worked. Arab culture is extremely parasitic. It invents nothing. If it wasn’t for contact with the west, Islam would still be locked in the 7th century technologically, just as it is culturally.
Islam, just like SJWs always lies. Always. Without exception or qualification.
soon to be a new topic of its own:
New ‘Little Ice Age’ coincides with fall of Eastern Roman Empire and growth of Arab Empire
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/fe-ni020416.php
Yep.
Also Israelites had become dispersed into the known world. Reading the book “Esther” in The Bible will give people an understanding that Jews were everywhere. Only a small percentage went back to Israel to rebuild The Temple and Israel. Those fantastic and blessed genes likely contributed much to the cultures they found themselves in.
I thought the Empire ended in 476. Mohammed came a few hundred years later.
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