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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
that's a FUCKING JOKE
the goddamned church preserved ILLITERACY for hundreds of years by not allowing the masses to read the bible (and by presenting their mass amss in latin, a long-dead language). there are many roman catholic churches in south america and africa and asia where this is still the prescribed practice, straight out of the motherfucking dark ages.
you have no knowledge of world linguistic history. if you did you would know that the written language was created in ancient sumerian times (pre-bible and pre-hebrews) as a means of keeping RECORDS, ussually crop records and sales records.
in other words, "the origin and source of the written word" is in BOOK-KEEPING and COMMERCE, not, I yell, NOT in religion.
you really ahve a deeply judeochristian-centric view of the history of the world my friend.
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I see both sides. The monks in the early middle ages did preserve a lot of literature, and a lot of our knowledge about classical times is due to that. The Catholic church not allowing people to read the bible did put a damper on literature, but when the Gutenberg bible came along the impact was pretty huge.