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To: stripes1776
That characterization of ancient Greek and Roman culture is extremely distorted and frankly wrong.

It is "extremely distorted" only in this, that I pointed to a feature of classical life that is conspicuously missing from Western culture today; and howbeit that that arrangement was not the rule among the people who practiced classical civilization, nevertheless it is diagnostic, an Occam's Razor if you will, for separating and distinguishing the classical attitudes toward the body and bodily functions from their Judaic counterparts. We inherited the Judaic attitudes and customs.

This statement is abundantly supported by the archaeological record and is not "wrong".

39 posted on 08/03/2009 12:59:16 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
It is "extremely distorted" only in this, that I pointed to a feature of classical life that is conspicuously missing from Western culture today; and howbeit that that arrangement was not the rule among the people who practiced classical civilization, nevertheless it is diagnostic, an Occam's Razor if you will, for separating and distinguishing the classical attitudes toward the body and bodily functions from their Judaic counterparts. We inherited the Judaic attitudes and customs. This statement is abundantly supported by the archaeological record and is not "wrong".

Again, your characterization is a great distortion.

58 posted on 08/03/2009 10:54:35 AM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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