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To: Cap'n Crunch
Chuckle, chortle...pardon me for not being up on my latin. I figured you'd parade out the 'usual suspects'.. "Galileo, Tyndale, witch burnings, etc. etc." Thought I'd get something new. This is all old stuff.

And it remains true "stuff", but stay in denial, I suspect you're good at that.

I think the fact of the matter is that what was once the greatness of Europe, society and the greatness of Christianity is because of the catholic church.

European society did not begin to make major advances until it began to throw off the 1000 year shackles of the church during the Renaissance,

508 posted on 01/01/2004 8:10:17 PM PST by WackyKat
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To: WackyKat
yawn
512 posted on 01/01/2004 8:13:43 PM PST by Cap'n Crunch (Auto-buffet!... what BlackElk said! Let the Inquisition begin!)
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To: WackyKat
Yeah. It was damn fortunate for us that Luther, Zwingli, et al, invented physics, mathematics, and metaphysics.
/sarcasm
608 posted on 01/02/2004 5:44:24 AM PST by ninenot (So many cats, so few recipes)
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