| Jumpin said: You mean pagan wisdom like trial by axe? How about burning live victims in the Brazen Bull? Or digging through pigs entrails to read someone's fortune? Or maybe executing children to appease the winds? Or sacrificing sheep to bring rain? Anyway, the reason the Catholic Church established itself as the main power in Rome was because Justinian destroyed the Ostrogothic Kingdom and then pulled out of the region when it was discovered to be too expensive to maintain. The Church was also responsible for bringing school and education back to Italy, England, Germany, and France after Justinian's invasion, many Pagan leaders were illiterate and didn't see the use of education. So it is a little bizarre saying the Church was less wise than the pagans, when in reality they were responsible for educations survival and growth leading up to and through the early modern era. The wisest aspects of ancient religion also was much closer to Christianity than the pagan religions... Afterall, the first Christians were Hellenized Jews, who merged Jewish ideas with philosophies of the wisest classical Greeks. Christianity is as much a successor religion to the classical philosophical and spirtual mystery cults as it is to Judaism. |
the church is not responsible for bringing people out of the dark ages but the denouncement of the chruch and science taking a higher place.
yeah some pagan things were nuts but it is the same what you see in abhrahamic religions.
and there no point talking about jews and judaism,we can what there ideas and egoism about their value in the world has brought to the world.
rather look at taoism or buddhism which are the most advanced philosophies out there
