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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).
you really ahve a deeply judeochristian-centric view of the history of the world my friend.
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if latin is such a dead language, then why has it been and remains the language of modern science for the past 500 years? I may indeed have a christian view of history, but some things exist regardless of my own viewpoints and perspectives. The Roman Church, and many other Eastern Churchs preserved literacy and writing systems in a time when Europeans could have lost the very concept. Hard to imagine? It shouldn't be, there are only two indigenous scrips in Africa, for a population of 700,000,000 people. People can live just fine, and build fantastic empires and achieve technological wonders, all without a written language, it turns out language itself is powerful enough for that. The written word has another agenda entirely. And in the European tradition, it was the Christian churches which preserved the concept and technology of written languages. I didn't make this shit up to support my agenda, I dont even conform to European christianity myself.