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极速赛车168官网 By: arkenaten

arkenaten — Fri, 28 May 2021 13:03:00 +0000

In reply to Tim O'Neill. And yet, as per usual you still felt the need to make sure you fired off one of your classic asinine comments. It's unfortunate the years have not improved your civility one iota.

极速赛车168官网 By: mithridates

mithridates — Fri, 28 May 2021 04:16:00 +0000

"...is regularly wheeled, creaking, into the sunlight for another trundle around the arena" is such a lovely expression that it came to mind again some 9 years later and I just had to google "trundle around" to see if I could find it and here I am.

极速赛车168官网 By: Apologia New Zealand

Apologia New Zealand — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:03:00 +0000

Wow, great article. I deeply appreciate the honesty of the author. Well done.

极速赛车168官网 By: CynthiaB

CynthiaB — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:22:00 +0000

In reply to William M. Briggs.

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极速赛车168官网 By: CynthiaB

CynthiaB — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 04:35:00 +0000

In reply to William M. Briggs.

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极速赛车168官网 By: justbobkc

justbobkc — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:44:00 +0000

The fact that Aquinas recognized Aristotle was sometimes wrong has one very, very key consequence for history from 1492 to 1865. The mere fact none of the Renaissance Philosophers shared Aquinas' proper deduction. Instead, they stuck with Aristotle in his Politics 1 discourse - that "natural slavery" existed and was "right". All the Enlightenment Age philosophers were thus racists and supported racist slavery. Locke invested in the "Royal African Company" of slavers, himself - and also was a key author in crafting the slave and aristocratic charter of the Carolina colony in the New World. Aquinas rejected Aristotle in this as well as other regards and deduced slavery was a sin. He didn't address "racism" per se because it wasn't an issue in his day - the Age of Exploration and discovery of "inferior" peoples and cultures only really started with Columbus.

极速赛车168官网 By: Frances Janusz

Frances Janusz — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:50:00 +0000

Tim,
Re Galileo, whatever the underlying reasons, the fact is that the Catholic Church used its very considerable power to silence a scientific theory on the grounds that it was not consistent with scripture.
No intelligent person can construe this as anything other than a clog in scientific development and unhelpful (to put it at its very mildest) to scientific progress

极速赛车168官网 By: Kenneth James Abbott

Kenneth James Abbott — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:33:00 +0000

Amusingly, while Christianity is blamed for ending the philosophy and science of the Roman Empire (which was already pretty unpopular in Rome), what it actually did was end the horrific abuses of the Roman empire. Slavery was ended in Christendom and didn't return until the Church's power waned with the Rennaisance. For all Catholic priests are accused of molestation (clergy are actually less likely than the average person to commit that crime), the rise of Christianity ended the use of sex-slaves, and while doubtless some criminals still engaged in child-sex those people ~became~ criminals--the practice of it as a cultural norm came to an end.

And wars--Agincourt, the deadliest battle in more than a thousand years, involved about 50,000 people on both sides. In one of its Punic wars, Rome ~lost~ morethan 90,000 men in one day. Far from this being an utter debacle that broke a nation, Rome continued to press the war for ten more years.

极速赛车168官网 By: Frenchfarmer

Frenchfarmer — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:22:00 +0000

I read a while back that the whole AD500--1000 is in itself a false construct as by 730 or 750 depending on which calendar one used nobody was able to agree so the king/emperor of central WesternEurope decided that the next year would be the year 1000 or else. There is therefore a non existent 200 odd years!
As if AD/BC wasn't tricky enough to calculate with already.