Quote:Frank Apisa said: ...within 50 years of becoming Christian...it [Rome] fell.
In fact, the advent of Christianity heralded 800 years of such western-world backwardness it is still referred to as, "The Dark Ages."
1- Rome used to be a barbaric warlike state invading every country in sight, but after becoming Christian they stopped doing that..
2- The term 'Dark Ages' is just an urban myth. A better term would be "The Quiet Ages" because people were at last free to make advances in science and astronomy etc without the nagging fear of getting invaded..
Frank Apisa said: During the 800 years after Christianity took hold...damn near everything was put on hold. There were relatively few advancements in any of those things.
Quote:Frank Apisa said: During the 800 years after Christianity took hold...damn near everything was put on hold. There were relatively few advancements in any of those things.
That's just another atheist urban myth mate, I'm surprised you fell for it..
Heck, even a Pope was a scholar and scientist!-
"In 999, a French monk, Gerbert de Aurillac (943-1003) was crowned Pope Sylvestre II in Rome..he was a well-known scholar who introduced the system of Arabic numerals to the West.
...He was an accomplished astronomer and most significantly wrote the first user’s manual for a scientific instrument, an astrolabe."
http://www.academia.edu/3313369/There_was_nothing_dark_about_the_Dark_Ages_The_Medieval_Origins_of_Science
Neologist said to me: I've already made sufficient observations about your character and reasoning ability.
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Yes mate, we already know you've violated the 9th Commandment by calling me-
"Ignorant, malicious, fable-spinner, talks drivel, a deceiver, racist , liar, self-deluded"
Blacks are always talking proudly about their African "roots", but there's nothing to stop them hopping on a ship and going back there.
I'm sure lots of whites would be more than happy to buy them a ticket..
Problem is, blacks in Britain and the USA are always shouting about "black rights" and they're a pain in the ass.
I for one am so fed up of them that I won't watch any film or TV show or video that's got a black in a main part, and neither will many other people.
Hey Hollywood and TV producers, are you listening?..
The black problem isn't as bad here in Britain because here at least they don't have guns.
We get all sorts coming here in their thousands- aborigines, fuzzy-wuzzies, pygmies, head-hunters, witch doctors, one minute they're eating each other in the jungle and the next they're having tea and muffins at the Little Puddington tearooms
You'd think America's blacks would be grateful to whites for rescuing them from the jungle; they gave them free passage on ships to the great Christian country of America, gave them free housing, free food, free med care, free english language lessons and good steady jobs on the plantations where they never again had to worry about being eaten by hostile tribes..
But I can understand and sympathise with your predicament!
When I began coming regularly into A2K you fatally assumed I was just another kid who'd wandered in off the street who could be bullied with your cockamamie JW beliefs, hence your tirade of schoolyard insults.
Little did you suspect that I'm a 66-yr-old debating hotshot all over internet-land and am a writer for Christian Waymarkers UK with a huge following of adoring fans..
Too late, you realised your mistake but can't bring yourself to admit you were wrong, so you now stubbornly resort to huffing and pouting like a spoilt schoolyard brat.
PS- you once alleged that I was "a threat to pygmy possums" but you later said it was just a joke, so I sportingly deleted it from your list of insults.
Maybe one day you'll admit your other insults were jokes or something too, in which case I'll be happy to delete them as well, I can't be fairer than that..
Neologist said 6 months ago- "I don't believe you always lie, Romeo; only when it suits you" (Neologist 19 Feb 014)[/i]
But now says: "OK, I take that back" (Neologist 16 Aug 014)
Neologist said to me: Well, you malign God by claiming he would submit his creations to infinite torture as retribution for finite sin. And you mislead folks who may be searching by failing to tell them that the hope for the majority of mankind is life on a paradise earth.
So, I guess that harms your fellow man as well as God.
Whether that is by intent, I still am not sure.
Romeo said to Neologist: Here's what you said about me-
"I am still trying to determine whether or not your intent is malicious (Neologist 22 Sep 013)
so i suggest you might like to re-phrase it .
Neologist replied: How about. "I know your views are wrong and defame God, but perhaps you are not deliberately malicious."
Neologist said to me: I never have judged you malicious
Romeo said: there are over 2 billion Christians on earth, and over 99% of them fully accept the version I've been giving!
By contrast, you JW's comprise less than 1% of the world's Christians, so your teachings are therefore very much in the minority.
Neologist replied: Jesus was quite clear when he told his disciples that the majority of those calling themselves christian would not be accepted.
Quote: “Go in through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are finding it.(Matthew 7:13,14)
So, your argument about majorities can't be the deciding factor
