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Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base
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RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base
Quote:This digression revolved around whether Rome in particular or classical western civilization in general had acheived substantially heightened probability of attaining scientific modernity which were subsequently squandered under the baleful influence of Christianity.


It's a historical conundrum along the lines of "what would have happened if Pickett's Charge succeeded?" or "suppose Napoleon had won at Waterloo."

The deadening hand of jesusism - or "baleful influence" as you put it - put a definite break on intellectual pursuits in the Empire which were not concerned with god shit.  Theology is about the most useless subject anyone can imagine but we also have the example of the Byzantines where the Empire did not fall for another 1,000 years but which still wasted much of its energy and resources on church-related shit.

However, it could be an intellectually interesting discussion.  Suppose instead of this jesus death cult with its fixation on the next world Rome had maintained its policy of tolerance and worried more about this world?  Suppose we had not consigned those 8-9 centuries in the West to the flames of ignorance?
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Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Minimalist - June 19, 2016 at 1:44 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - June 19, 2016 at 1:46 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - June 19, 2016 at 3:34 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - June 19, 2016 at 3:41 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - August 1, 2016 at 4:09 am
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - June 19, 2016 at 4:54 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by GUBU - June 19, 2016 at 5:47 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by GUBU - June 22, 2016 at 7:11 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by GUBU - June 23, 2016 at 7:08 am
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - June 23, 2016 at 7:22 am
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - June 23, 2016 at 4:36 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - June 23, 2016 at 7:07 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Minimalist - June 26, 2016 at 12:57 am
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Banjo - August 1, 2016 at 5:20 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - August 1, 2016 at 1:37 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Banjo - August 1, 2016 at 5:25 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Banjo - August 1, 2016 at 9:37 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - August 1, 2016 at 5:29 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - August 1, 2016 at 5:47 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Banjo - August 1, 2016 at 10:23 pm
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Banjo - August 2, 2016 at 3:17 am
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Banjo - August 2, 2016 at 8:33 am
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by abaris - August 2, 2016 at 3:42 am
RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base - by Banjo - August 2, 2016 at 6:32 pm

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