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To: Terabitten; WileyPink
Thanks, Terabitten.

Something else Mr. Pink might want to consider is that nobody can seriously debate the proposition that Western European civilization is laid upon a Catholic foundation. (And if you wish, that Catholic foundation is laid upon a classical Greco-Roman foundation.)

To claim that the Catholic Church is Satanic and all Popes are antichrist is effectively to claim that the roots of Western culture and civilization are Satanic. (Can a Godly culture be built on a Satanic foundation?)

It's to claim that the church that first translated the Scriptures out of Greek and Hebrew is Satanic.

It's to claim that the church that preserved those Scriptures until the late Middle Ages -- as even Luther himself testified! -- is Satanic.

It's to claim that the culture that brought about the first stirrings of human freedom in modern times, things like the Swiss confederation and the Magna Carta, is Satanic.

It's to claim that the culture that invented modern musical notation, without which we would have neither the cantatas of Bach nor the hymns of Wesley, is Satanic.

It's to claim that the culture that invented movable type, without which the Reformation would not have happened, is Satanic.

And all of that gives Satan way more credit than he deserves, IMO. He's neither that good, nor that creative.

36 posted on 02/19/2008 2:25:25 PM PST by Campion
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To: Campion

Excellent post.


108 posted on 02/19/2008 7:06:10 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Campion

I might add that some may want to try reading this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Reason-Christianity-Freedom-Capitalism/dp/0812972333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203477813&sr=8-1


116 posted on 02/19/2008 7:23:54 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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