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Originally Posted by Daradon
Also, they had a similar golden age before monothesitic religion took over, much like the golden age in Greece where they had technologies and freedoms that we've just eclipsed over the last 150 years or so.
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So true, in fact they were in most respects the enlightened people and Europe was in darkness. One of my favorite books from Bernard Lewis is:
http://www.amazon.com/What-Went-Wron.../dp/0195144201
He talks in depth about what went wrong, how this empire went from being a leader to falling back into almost iron age existence.
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People are just people. Not making excuses for them. Just saying, take a good look at yourself in the mirror. There's not a whole lot of difference between you and those clerics down there. I can admit it.
We all have to help each other.
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That's a very interesting comment, care to elaborate because I don't see the similarities.