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To: Neocon who wrote (11138)	6/4/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

I was going to remark on the comments on the Church myself, but you seem to have covered it well enough. Too often those of us, like myself, who have eschewed religion make it a hobby to condemn the Church and Christianity in general. Like all institutions, it can not so easily fall under any generalizations. The Church was guilty of grave excesses, especially in its later history (Borgia anyone?). But any honest historicism must pay due regard to the tremendous positive influences the Church exercised over Western civilization, and may very well have saved Europe from becoming a footnote of history. Not to get too deep into this discussion, but the Catholic Church was the sole conserving factor in Western civilization after the fall of Rome. Not only did it preserve Greek philosophy and thought, and the universalism of Rome, but it exercised a moderating influence on a Europe which very well may have fallen into a barbarism and chaos similiar to the period after the death of Alexander.