I see the Christians continue to pretend that Christianity is somehow an author, rather than the defeated enemy, of the Enlightenment.

I suggest they get with a good book, which would be any history book of the period from the end of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance. Does it look familiar? It should.... it's just modern Islam without the Internet. THAT is Christianity unleavened.

It wasn't until Aquinas set the genie of Aristotle loose in the Church that the dark chains forged by St. Augustine began to rust. And it was those ideas, not any stemming from Christianity itself, which authored the Enlightenment.

If Christanity deserves any credit at all, it's in the fact that (after a protracted fight) it got out of the way of the new era, and then "adapted" to it (as the Pope recently put it); it allowed itself to be tamed. Islam fears that same fate.

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Posted by Jim to Thrutch at 3/03/2006 02:08:18 PM