Let us behave like those long-suffering Christian monks who in the days of Dark Ages barbarian invasions in Western Europe had the patience to rebuild infrastructure and culture again and again and who thus gave us the civilization we now enjoy.
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You know, this isn't a bad idea... let all the Christians go off to life in mountains and stop reproducing.
It's not PURELY that wrong. A lot of those nations did keep getting pwned by outsiders, and kept rebuilding over and over, with the help of the Christian monks among others.
So, we should shave our heads, live in the mountains to a life of obedience, poverty and chastity, and never reproduce.
the patience to rebuild infrastructure and culture again and again and who thus gave us the civilization we now enjoy.
They mainly preserved knowledge, rather than contributing to cultural progress.
Barbarians? What barbarians? Oh, he means non-Christian/ non-Roman cultures. Got it.
Just for a sec. It´s true that those monks preserved the knowledge of the time, which was a lot, but from there TO SAY THAT THEY ARE THE FATHERS OF INTERNET AND MODERN SOCIETY, IT´S EXAGERATE. Second, Europe was not invaded by any "barbarian" civilisation. Spain and Greece, maybe, but it was benefitial, if you think about it, because the muslims were preserving that knowledge too and maybe the siege of Wien, but it failed. If we know enjoy now our civilisation, it´s because many rebel Christian and agnostic, through knowledge and truth, got their views recognised. Of course, we behave like those monks, we investigate. Only that we don´t take the habits.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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