Quote:You agree with that also?
It is an interesting hypothesis, Rayaan. Which is the problem here as it always has been. I understand why you cannot tolerate hypothesis which you consider to be blasphemous but scholarship cannot be constrained by charges of blasphemy. We'd still be living in caves eating rocks if people were forbidden to every investigate any new concept.
I'm going to go looking for a passage from a book for you...happily for you it is not one of Spencer's...I'll be back. Perhaps then you will see how Spencer's idea arises.
Just hold one thought while I'm gone. The Xtian emperors of Rome and Byzantium were as vicious in suppressing heretical xtians as much as they were in suppressing paganism.
BRB.