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17 Apr 2005 06:00:32 PM |
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Ah, The Lucky Romans |
Their Church became the most respected multinational
in the world.
Their canon of books on Christianity unchallenged.
Their edition, the only useful edition.
Their language, the only language of the internationalized
Church.Only seconded by Islamic Arabic.
Their Laws, the only reference, except for Charia Law
Their priesthood and bishobric
Truly God raised them up as a people
for his own purpose and glory.
Not-Easily-Duped
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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| Title: Re: Ah, The Lucky Romans |
17 Apr 2005 11:35:25 PM |
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On 17 Apr 2005 16:00:32 -0700, drained his
beer, leaned back in the alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed
the following
Their Church became the most respected multinational
in the world.
Their canon of books on Christianity unchallenged.
Their edition, the only useful edition.
Their language, the only language of the internationalized
Church.Only seconded by Islamic Arabic.
Their Laws, the only reference, except for Charia Law
Their priesthood and bishobric
Truly God raised them up as a people
for his own purpose and glory.
And then sent the Huns, Visigoths, Ostragoths, and Goths You Find In
Coffee Shops At 3AM Debating French Film to pound their empire to
rubble, ushering in a centuries-long Dark Age when learning pretty
much stopped in Christian lands.
Meanwhile, over in Byzantium, civilization hummed along under the
Eastern Papacy. Greek remains the language of science, because that
was the language of Constantinople.
Then the Muslims kicked that over.
Hmmmm...
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Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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| User: "robert bowman" |
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| Title: Re: Ah, The Lucky Romans |
18 Apr 2005 09:05:51 AM |
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Douglas Berry wrote:
And then sent the Huns, Visigoths, Ostragoths, and Goths You Find In
Coffee Shops At 3AM Debating French Film to pound their empire to
rubble, ushering in a centuries-long Dark Age when learning pretty
much stopped in Christian lands.
Let's not forget the Goths were also Christian, if of the Arian persuasion.
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