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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]Funny, I don't remember Christ telling his followers to rejoice in the persecution of others.[/quote] How am I persecuting homosexuals? Am I torturing them?...throwing stones at them. Talking bad about how they treat one another as humans? How am I damaging their reputations? As humans apart from their sexual preferences they are equal to me. I relate to this part of them always. The Christian way is humility, love, compassion, forgiveness. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [quote]Yes Jade, WE are aware of this. Unfortunately, you are not. I guess that makes you a Christian only in word, not deed.[/quote] Come on ..Web..your guilty of judging my character as I am not a Christian? Just because I speak against homosexuality does not make me a bad person in cahoots with intolerance. I could say your intolerant of Christians or me so how does that make you different in how you accuse me. [quote]FFS Jade get your facts straight! First hospitals were founded ~290 BC, and the first school/university ~2250 BC if you consider the Shangyang school, or ~385 BC for Plato's academy. [/quote] This is from Wikipedia regarding the history of western civilization: After the fall of Rome much of Greco-Roman art, literature, science and even technology were lost. Europe fell into political anarchy, with many warring kingdoms and principalities, and evolved into feudalism. The Greek and Roman paganism was essentially completely replaced by Christianity. Roman Catholic Christianity served as a unifying force in Western Europe, and in some respects replaced or competed with the secular authorities. Art and literature, law, education, and politics all fell into its sway. The Church founded many cathedrals, monasteries and seminaries, some of which evolved into today's universities and colleges. In the Medieval period, the route to power for many men was in the Church. It actively encouraged the spreading of Christianity, which also helped to spread early Western culture. Owing to the influence of Arab culture?a culture that had preserved the knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome?in Moorish Spain and in the Levant during the Crusades, Western Europe rediscovered its Greek heritage in the 1300s, and the Renaissance was born. From the early 15th century to the early 17th century Western culture began to be spread throughout the world by intrepid explorers and missionaries in the Age of Discovery. PS: This includes astronomy which continues today in that the RC church has the largest most advanced telescope in the world and continues to name galaxies, finds, etc. And the concept of achieving degrees in education came from the Roman Catholic Christian Church as well. The concept of hospitals was first founded by the Roman catholic church the missionaries, nuns, etc Loading...
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