al Face of Christianity: Church Fathers Destroy Art, Education & Science
Jumbo 3D
See some facts about here which unmask the real face of St Paul's
christianity:
** The Church had a devastating impact on society. As the Church
assumed leadership, activity in the field of medicine technology,
science, education, history, art and commerce all but collapsed. Europe
entered the Dark Ages. Although the church amassed immense wealth
during these centuries, most of what defines civilization disappeared.
(Helen Ellerbe)
** The Church burned enormous amounts of literature. In 391 Christians
burned down one of the worlds greatest libraries in Alexandria, said to
have housed 700,000 rolls. (The new Colombia Encyclopaedia, 61, and,
Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade.)
** All the books of the Gnostic Basilides, Porphyry's 36 volumes,
papyrus rolls of 27 schools of mysteries, and 270,000 ancient documents
gathered by Ptolemy Philadelphus were burned.(Graham. Deceptions and
Myths of the Bible, 444).
** Ancient academies of learning were closed. Education for anyone
outside of the church came to an end. And what little education there
was during the Middle Ages, while still limited to the clergy, was
advocated by powerful Kings as a means of providing themselves with
capable administrators. (Jeffrey Burton. Russell, a History of Medieval
Christianity, 103.)
** The church opposed the study of grammar and Latin. Pope Gregory the
l, or Gregory the Great, a man thought to have been one of the greatest
architects of the medieval order objected to grammatical study. He
writes: " I despise the proper construction and cases, because I think
it is very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be
restricted by the rules of Donatus \a well known grammarian/. ( Charles
Homer Haskins, The Renaissance of the 12th century, 96.)
** Gregory the Great also condemned education for all but the clergy as
folly and wickedness. He forbade laymen to read even the bible. He had
the library of Palatine Apollo burned, "lest it's secular literature
distract the faithful and the contemplation of heaven." ( Barbara G
Walker, The Woman's Encyclopaedia of Myths and Secrets, 208.)
** The Fourth Council of Cartharge in 398 forbade Bishops to even read
the books of gentiles. ( Haskins, The Renaissance of the 12th Century,
95.)
** The church father Jerome and early monastics in the fourth century
rejoiced that the classical authors were being forgotten. And his
younger monastic contempories were known to boast of their ignorance of
everything except Christian literature. (John H Smith, The Death of
Classical Paganism, 247).
** After Christians had spent years destroying books and libraries, St.
John Chrysostom, the pre-eminent Greek father of the Church, proudly
declared, "Every trace of the old philosophy and literature of the
ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth. ( Walker, The
woman's encyclopaedia of Myths and Secrets, 208)
** Monastic libraries the only libraries left, were composed of books
of devotion. Even the most significant of monastic libraries carried
little aside from books on Christian theology. While monks did copy
manuscripts, such work was not esteemed for its intrinsic value but
rather considered part of the prescribed manual labour, necessary in
the effort of "fighting the devil in pen and ink," in the words of the
Christian Cassiodorus. (Haskins, The Renaissance of the 12th Century,
34.)
** The early Roman church had devastating impact upon artistic
_expression. According to Roman Christianity, art should enhance and
promote the RC and it's values; it should not simply serve as an
individuals creative exploration and _expression. New works of art
which did not concur with the churches ideology would not be created
again before the renaissance. Marble statues of ancient Rome were torn
down, most notably Gregory the Great, and made into lime. Architectural
marbles and mosaics were either made into lime or went to adorn
Cathedrals all over Europe and as far away as Westminster Abbey in
London. The ravaging of marble works accounts for the thin ornate slabs
with ancient inscription still found in many churches today. (Boorstin,
The Discoverers, 581.)
Abscense of Jesus from the ethics of religion and affect of St Paul's
"justifying your faith without deeds of law" (Rom 3:28) made every
Christian free and Christ Jesus dead for their sins, if there is faith
in Jesus, deeds doesn't matter. That is why today, the Christian
Americans kill MILLIONS of unborn babies a year. (Just ONLY in America,
mind you).
Approximate number of abortions in the US per year (based on
assumptions by the Alan Guttmacher Institute).
Approximately 1,370,000 abortions occur annually in the US according to
the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
In 2001, 1.31 million abortions took place.
88% of abortions occur during the first 6 to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
60% of abortions are performed on women who already have one or more
children.
47% of abortions are performed on women who have already had one or
more abortions.
43% of women will have had at least one abortion by the time they are
45 years old (this statistic includes miscarriages in the term
"abortion").
1996 - 1,365,700
1995 - 1,363,700
1994 - 1,431,000
1993 - 1,500,000
1992 - 1,528,900
1991 - 1,556,500
1990 - 1,608,600
1989 - 1,566,900
1988 - 1,590,800
1987 - 1,559,100
1986 - 1,574,000
1985 - 1,588,600
1984 - 1,577,200
1983 - 1,575,000
1982 - 1,573,900
1981 - 1,577,300
1980 - 1,553,900
1979 - 1,497,700
1978 - 1,409,600
1977 - 1,316,700
1976 - 1,179,300
1975 - 1,034,200
1974 - 898,600
1973 - 774,600
http://womensissues.about.com/cs/abo...rtionstats.htm shame on you for
not being more angry at the daily Nazi-like atrocities happening in
your religion. (wheter it be Europe, The Americas Asia, Australia or
wherever.) Also remember, this is happening in the modern world, not
400 to 1700 years ago.
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