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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (553118)	3/4/2010 7:36:10 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (4) of 1574854

Are you kidding? Christianity ended slavery? Why did it take 1800 years? YOu need to read the history of civilzation by Will Durant. Slavery and cannibalism ended when civilzation reached a certain level of understanding. You do not understand history very well. They called it the dark ages because it was a period of intellectual decline after the fall of Rome and replaced by the harsh dogma of the church when intellectuals were put to death by the church for heresy. Guys like Bruno, Copericus (almost killed) and Galileo (almost killed). Everyone feared the church in those days. History goes like this: 350 BC, ancient Greeks explored reason, Romans wipped out Greece; then Rome fell and we went into the Dark ages until about the 14th century (renaissance); and then the 18th century, "age of enlightenment" whereby people realized reason was the foundation of civilzation. Well, at least now I know why you believe what you believe. Slavery and cannialism ended when we reachded a certain level of civilization (i.e. reason instead of myth: and it ended around the world. Koan, > Are you familiar with the "Dark Ages" and why it was called that? And the "Age of enlightenment" and why it is called that? What do you think ended cannibalism and slavery? Christians ended slavery. Even here in America, Abraham Lincoln was a devout Christian. The Quakers were also well-known abolitionists, and they along with other Protestants helped lead the anti-slavery movements in England and America during the 19th century. I don't know why you keep bringing up cannibalism, since it was not prevalent in Western societies even during the Dark Ages. Cannibalism was practiced more by primitive tribes in areas where Christian missionaries visited. Those missionaries (at least the ones who avoided becoming dinner themselves) successfully ended the practice of cannibalism wherever they spread the Gospel. The Age of Enlightenment helped establish the free market of ideas we have today, but there is no direct connection between it and the abolition of slavery and cannibalism. No doubt it may be related to the anti-slavery movement, but to associate it with the end of cannibalism is ridiculous. You still haven't told me how "modern day education" ended cannibalism, war, and slavery. Tenchusatsu

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