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Gregory Taylor's avatar

And I asked google AI if Islam was considered a threat in early medieval Europe. You're going to have to eat another big slice of humble pie, though such fare seems totally Haram to the muslim character.

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What a discovery: the same blinkered zealots who viewed literacy and bathing with pious suspicion also felt threatened by a rapidly ascendant new religion! 😱

“During the 6th and 7th century key features of the early Christians – such as dialogue, tolerance and reason – where among the first virtues that went out of the window once the Church took control of knowledge. The Greek and Roman intellectual tradition of reasoning was replaced by a new order with the precondition that any form of intellectual pursuit had to be based on grace and faith; on the authority of the Bible; and the dogmas of the Church – this became what would become known as the start of the dead-hand of religion.” https://paulbuddehistory.com/europe/the-infallible-medieval-believe-system/

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