----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 5:59 AM Subject: Re: Bullying and Battering
> On Sat, 29 May 2004 01:08:31 -0400, Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was the belief of the official state religion of a totalitarian > regime that information it disapproved of should be suppressed. If by > mainstream you mean majority, until the successful campaigns of > Justinian (died 565) Arianism, not Catholicism was the majority > religion of Europe. > At the least Arianism was constantly being fought as a heresy *of* Catholicism in much of France (and parts of Germany IIRC). But Arianism was basically a form of Catholicism and is strongly tied to the cult of the Magdelene. There are variations of Arianism that survive to the current period by some accounts. > > > > So again, by posting this you create an unequal and only half-story, and > > minimize the efforts of later generations to preserve that information. > > I am reminded of "Alas, Babylon" which mimicked this preservation by > having the Church canonization of a Jew and the manuscript > illumination of his grocery shopping list by barely literate monks who > had no clue to the works they were saving after a nuclear war. Should that not be "A Canticle For Liebowitz"? > > I acknowledge that the Irish monks on the remote outskirts of the > Empire had a program to preserve manuscripts but the major recent book > on the subject is overrated and does not even mention sources besides > the Irish monks, i.e. Jews, Muslims, the Eastern Empire. > Seanchan Torpiest for example. xponent Broad Subject Maru rob
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