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Originally posted by Dark Messiah
Martin Luther was actually a rat bastard. He was a racist, sexist asshole. Not that he wasn't right to criticize the church. Anyway, it's pretty much accepted fact in any reputable historical circle that all European civilization and memory of the Romans would've died out without the Christian church. Monks were the ones who preserved and recorded history from the time of the fall of the Roman Empire up until the Renaissance. |
Actually it was the Magisters in Artibus who actually researched and preserved history in the the 12th Century. The main universities of Cambridge, Paris and Bolonga (and others) were the ones who worked on most of the great works of history. Most of the information on the romans and the greeks was found by these scholars and taken back to the great university libraries. Scribes (Laymen) were the ones who copied these works. The scribes however only did what they were told and during the dark ages, the church tried to censor the libraries of the great universities.
Neon
"I've oft been told by learned friars
That wishing and the crime were one
And heaven punishes desires
As much as if the deed were done.
If wishing damns us, you and I
Are damned to all our hearts content.
Come then we may at least enjoy
Some pleasure for our punishment..."
Sir Thomas More