It preserved quite a bit of knowledge that otherwise would have been lost in a time where the gov. was self imploding and created the condition we call serfdom due to out of control spending.
It would be nice if someone once in awhile opened up a history book and thought some of it through. It's asking for too much, I know. While where on the issues of threats, look at the last century and governments. It is not a pretty picture.
Comparison of Islam and Christianity prompts much thought.
Show me order, progress, technological advancement, rights and liberty and I will show you the free industrialized west.
Updated as the G7.
Now, show me one achievement Islam has made for modern man in the last 1400 years. Show me one Nobel prize for a higher science.... and you can’t.
Sure they stumbled onto some oil wealth and bought many things but on their own , they cannot stand.
It saved us from the hordes of BARBARIC Islamofascist Jihadists who were hell bent on conquering the World and almost managed to do so, were it not for the Crusades and stopping their advance into Europe at the Gates of Vienna in 1529.
One of the Greatest Statesmen in the last 100 years, Winston Churchill also addressed this vile, eeeevil, cult-posing as a religion in 1899:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step;.....
.....AND WERE IT NOT THAT CHRISTIANITY IS SHELTERED IN THE STRONG ARMS OF SCIENCE - THE SCIENCE AGAINST WHICH IT HAD VAINLY STRUGGLED - THE CIVILISATION OF MODERN EUROPE MIGHT FALL, AS FELL THE CIVILISATION OF ANCIENT ROME.