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To: Brumar89 who wrote (49468)	3/12/2014 7:18:19 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Ancient Greek writings WERE preserved. Mostly by Christians... Christian mobs mostly burned books after looting and raping, ever hear of the Library of Alexandria? In March of 415 CE, a mob of angry christians attacked Hypatia and dragged her to their new Caesareum church. There they took tiles and broken clay pots and proceeded to cut the skin off her body. When she was completely flayed they burned her alive. This was all condoned and encouraged by “Saint” Cyril of Alexandria. Under his reign all non-christians were persecuted, murdered, and imprisoned. The great bastion on knowledge, the Library of Alexandria, was pillaged and burned. The murder of Hypatia is considered by some to mark the end of classical antiquity. The Classics were preserved but with little or no thanks to Christianity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Classics Catholic church scholars acknowledged Aristotle's genius. The greatest of heathen Philosophers, born at Stagira, a Grecian colony in the Thracian peninsula Chalcidice, 384 B.C.; died at Chalcis, in Euboea, 322 B.C. newadvent.org