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To: Unassuaged
FYI, the greeks were pagens.

You apparently miss the point. The pagan Greeks, despite the contributions of Aristotle et al., had a superstitious, rather than confident, view of the world. They did not have the philosophical and theological foundation to produce a culture of science. The medievals did.

In other words, Greece produced some great content, as did China and India. But to produce a millennium-long (and counting) scientific revolution required Western Christianity. It sounds so embarrassingly unsophisticated when secular academics whine about the medieval Church. They toss around terms like the "search for truth" and "freedom of inquiry"—seemingly ignorant of the fact that the medieval Church introduced those ideas to a hostile world and gave them their cushy jobs.

57 posted on 05/20/2008 8:42:29 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

‘Western’, yes I agree with the spirit of your argument, but I am not among the moaners and complainers. The Church, along with wealthy city-states and eastern empires allowed for patronage - due to their great power and wealth. Truly there has never been a more generous patron than the Church.


71 posted on 05/21/2008 6:31:10 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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