You have my gratitude for wandering into my corner of Steemit, @eddard! :-) And you're so right to: not only in the name of Christianity but in the name of a lot of religions a lot of minds and knowledge have been destroyed throughout the ages. It's scary to think about sometimes: in the middle-ages when the Catholic rained supreme in Europe, it was particularly bad. Witch-hunts, public burnings and beheadings, thumbscrews, and a lot more super-cruel punishments were used in the name of the Church. Normally people don't feel the need to make a stranger suffer; only when organized under some sort of religion or ideology this ugly deformed group-mentality takes over, and suddenly we take our children to public executions as if it were a day out.
The burning of all that knowledge in Alexandria is probably the blackest page in the history of science...
The library in Alexandria was burnt down by early christians that was a lot of ancient knowledge lost forever
You have my gratitude for wandering into my corner of Steemit, @eddard! :-) And you're so right to: not only in the name of Christianity but in the name of a lot of religions a lot of minds and knowledge have been destroyed throughout the ages. It's scary to think about sometimes: in the middle-ages when the Catholic rained supreme in Europe, it was particularly bad. Witch-hunts, public burnings and beheadings, thumbscrews, and a lot more super-cruel punishments were used in the name of the Church. Normally people don't feel the need to make a stranger suffer; only when organized under some sort of religion or ideology this ugly deformed group-mentality takes over, and suddenly we take our children to public executions as if it were a day out.
The burning of all that knowledge in Alexandria is probably the blackest page in the history of science...