Don’t forget Poitiers (or Tours, if you prefer) in 732 A.D.
Without the CATHOLIC Charles Martel, we’d all be speaking Arabic tonight on this forum.
http://www.freedomszone.com/archives/2006/10/charles_martel_and_the_battle_1.php
Without the CATHOLIC Charles Martel, wed all be speaking Arabic tonight on this forum.
I would dare say that we would not only not be having this forum, but we would be stuck with at best tenth century technology. It was the Judeo-Christian cultural environment that encouraged the scientific discoveries.