(November 28, 2011 at 4:44 pm)Xavier Wrote: I personally believe that Christianity did destroy Greco Roman civilization, and set civilization into the Dark Ages.
Prior to Christianity the Roman Empire had been relatively tolerent to people of different faiths and people were free to follow different religions.
When the Roman Empire adopted Christianity, Christian emperors persecuted all other faiths and tried to force everyone to be Christian under pain of death.
Literature written by pagans was burnt and destroyed which resulted in many works of literature, mathematics, philosophy, engineering being lost, and destroyed centuries of accumulated learning.
If you have not read The Christian Delusion, get it and read a chapter by Richard Carrier entitled "Christianity Was Not Responsible for Modern Science.
or go to his blog http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/ and find articles concerning ancient science (which he is an expert on).
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