This is all fine Gary, but again look at your dates and again look at the transition within Christianity. The role of Christians post Augustine, FREX, was as *preservers* of this legacy. A lot has been made about Muslims and preservation of knowledge, but where did this come from? The answer, of course, is from works preserved by Christians in the Eastern Empire. If there really was a concerted effort to destroy this legacy, would we have access to it at all?
Furthermore, in sections of your post, you cite information such as the suppression of Arianism and Gnosticism. You post this without external reference to what was going on in Christianity at the time. Of course such works would be supressed since it was the belief of the mainstream that this was perilous and grossly incorrect. So again, by posting this you create an unequal and only half-story, and minimize the efforts of later generations to preserve that information. Damon.
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