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To: zzpat who wrote (1039524)	11/19/2017 5:16:18 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582284

Christianity didn't close any schools. Christians became teachers in Greco-Roman schools. Emperor Julian, who tried to make the Empire pagan again, fired all Christian teachers. Those teachers taught the classical languages of Greek and Latin and the art of rhetoric from the Greek and Roman classics and Julian ruled you had to believe in Greco-Roman religion and sacrifice to their gods or you couldn't be a teacher. It's only been in the last few centuries that westerners didn't have to learn Greek or Latin to be well educated. Those Greek and Roman classics have been preserved to the present day because Christian scholars preserved them. The use of Greek and and Latin in the Catholic and Orthodox churches is testimony to their preservation of classic culture. It took over a thousand years from the rise of Christianity for the Bible to be translated out of Greek and Latin. Irish, Polish, German, Russian scholars had to learn either Greek or Latin to read the Bible.