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To: Rurudyne

Jezz is your history weak. Do your own research of the history of the period from 1000 BC to 1600 AD.


76 posted on 10/03/2017 3:27:32 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Jazz is your straw-man weak.

For a thousand of those years Christians were not to be heard of.

If you want to throw some accusations at Israel then do that ... but unless you accept the Bible in what it says about David they never ruled much (didn’t even rule much even then).

Christianity had about 600 years before Islam came on the scene.

If early Christians were notorious for burning anything other than sorcery related items belonging to those being saved, their personal property, then Classical civilization would have left little in classical libraries for the Muslims to burn.

Mind you, Christian writings were frequently burned by the Pagans in various persecutions so for about half of that time Christians had sporadic problems keeping their libraries intact.

After Islam began to spread a lot more than libraries were burned. The reason we have all these World History sites in North Africa is the same reason a one time breadbasket that took centuries of care to foster is only a shell of its former self ... the Muslims killed everybody so no one scavenged the stone for later buildings.

Now, for the latter time you mention, when it comes to the West, I think you’ll find that completely aside from the fate of few libraries that Muslim raiders could reach the notion that they had of kings and nobility, that they were focused on war-making and considers literacy a priest/scribe/servant pursuit totally beneath those who ruled ... so it is clear that until Charlemagne and Alfred that learning wasn’t valued, the peasants certainly weren’t gonna be tolerated to waste their time learning when they should be toiling, with the result being that not all much was being written (in the West) That is, naturally, different than burning what is already written.

Yes, in the Americas there were whole libraries burned by men whose main view of those who had written them was that they were pagans of the worst sort, and who weren’t terribly interested in anything but gold anyway. The treatment of these natives, incidentally, was so bad that it led to some hard fought reforms in Spanish and Portuguese common laws and if that’s not a clear indication of how bad things were compared to in Europe ... they, along with (later on) the French and ESPECIALLY the Belgians (with what little empire they eventually had) actually made the English look good by comparison!

(Damnable bad luck to be an African under Belgian rule...)


77 posted on 10/03/2017 5:37:41 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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