(December 30, 2011 at 7:23 pm)VyckRo Wrote: "We have no idea how the library was destroyed" therefore we assume that they were Christians!
Don't be idiotic. Not even a single person in this thread, to my knowledge, made any such assertion. You are accusing atheists of saying that something happened. That doesn't make it reality. The bottom line is that no one knows what happened and it very well could have been Christians. It also could have been war or natural disaster, as I have already said. How can you possibly follow up a post where someone blatantly said it was a mystery with "You assume it was Christians!"? Fucking ridiculous.
Quote:Though here, we speak of the Byzantine empire, that kept all the knowledge of antiques that we do have, in reality all the parents of the eastern church, as
Basil the Great or John Chrysostom were scholars in Greek philosophy.
In this time in the west, the classical culture disappears from most places. But not because Christians wanted to destroy the ancient culture
Uh, yes they did. It was pagan culture.
Quote:but once with the disappearance of the traditional patrician elite,with the collapse of the West Roman Empire, the Greek knowledge is lost.
What in the fuck are you talking about? Greek knowledge is not lost.
Quote:In ancient Rome Greek was the language of intellectuals, as French would be later for Russians, and there was no need for translations of classical works from Greek in to Latin, therefore the Greek tests become unusable, from the moment of the disappearance of that intellectual elite that was able to understand them
A. What the fuck does this have to do with your insane claims? B. Greek texts are usable to this day. Whether people outside of Greece could use them is irrelevant. I cannot read Arabic. Does that make Arabic texts useless?
Quote: even with the risks, of contradicting the Christian dogma.
Bang! And there you fucking have it. The risks. You mean, like death, torture, life imprisonment? Yeah, those. . .
Quote:of course ... that is why all the great eastern theologians and Patriarchs was educated in Alexandria
Might have been because Alexandria had all the fucking books.
Quote:We observe, the following atheist myths:
Christians as destroyers of ancient culture
Christians as destroyers of library in Alexandria
One of your biggest mistakes is calling them "atheist" myths. Atheists are not the only ones who disagree with your denialism.
Next, the Christians were destroyers of ancient culture. Do not worry. I don't discriminate there. So were the Muslims, Spanish (South America), British (North America), Chinese (Tibet) and more I am sure.