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> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> trolled:
> > "t_naismith" wrote:
> >
> > > <cross-post from "free.christians" NG - a misnomer or plea for
> > assistance?>
> >
> > > Here's a better deal, Jaz; if you can admit to the rampant cultural
> > > thieveries of xtianity from prior cultures which took place over
> > > thousands of years, (cf. history), and do everything you can to
> > > try to redress that issue, I personally will take your request under
> > > advisement. Until then, kill-file me or bugger off.
> >
> > Could you be a little more specific about what you believe we have taken
> > from other cultures?
> >
> What, you don't know your own religion's history? The laundry list of
> examples would be considerably shorter were it to include that which
> was _not_ borrowed/swiped/nicked/plagiarized/co-opted from cultures
> which predated it. So, that's your mission, missionary; find some tenet
> that was not stolen by xtianity ... there has to be at least one, nyet?
>
> T.N.
>
I can tell you this, that it was the Christian church that gave literacy to
many many languages, and then the secular used what we gave for their own
purposes.
It was the Christian church that built many fine buildings used today for
exclusively pagan purposes.
It was Christian thought that developed the legal systems that underly
modern democracies and free market countries.
It was the Reformation that gave rise to the Industrial Revolution
It was Christians who were the leading scientists through the main centuries
of progress.
It was for, admittedly mislead, Christian purposes that the basis of modern
art, literature and music in all European and American culture was founded,
and then hijacked by unbelievers.
In short, we don't need to have any complexes at all about the balance sheet
of our culture.
Uncle Davey
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