RE: The Current Evolution of Ancient Religious Institutions
November 19, 2023 at 6:42 am
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2023 at 6:45 am by TimOneill.)
(November 19, 2023 at 6:19 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(November 19, 2023 at 3:19 am)TimOneill Wrote: Pardon? The Church did not "keep them uneducated". On the contrary, the Church was one of the only institutions that provided education for the lower classes at all and one of the few that allowed smart people from that strata to rise to high rank and authority regardless of birth. So that's simply nonsense. Most people were not educated then for the same reason most people were not educated in any period of history before the Industrial Revolution - they didn't need to be and were busy getting on with their lives and work. Same as in Roman times or any other period. So this is nonsense, sorry.
So they didn't need to be educated. If you say so. Great educator.
No, most people didn't need education. In pre-modern societies, most people had no need for literacy. So it wasn't that "the Church" somehow kept them from being educated. They had no need of it any more than their Greek or Roman Era ancestors did. The need for widespread literacy rose much later. Understand?
Abd your claim that most people were unaware that the earth was round was wrong anyway.
