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From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World

Hindu Press International
Hinduism Today Magazine, hinduismtoday.com
June 11, 2018

UNITED STATES, June 8, 2018 (New York Times, by Bettany
Hughes): Vandalizing the Parthenon temple in Athens has
been a tenacious tradition. Most famously, Lord Elgin
appropriated the "Elgin marbles" in 1801-5. But that was
hardly the first example. In the Byzantine era, when the
temple had been turned into a church, two bishops --
Marinos and Theodosios -- carved their names on its
monumental columns. The Ottomans used the Parthenon as a
gunpowder magazine, hence its pockmarked masonry -- the
result of an attack by Venetian forces in the 17th century.
Now Catherine Nixey, a classics teacher turned writer and
journalist, takes us back to earlier desecrations, the
destruction of the premier artworks of antiquity by
Christian zealots (from the Greek zelos -- ardor, eager
rivalry) in what she calls "The Darkening Age."

Using the mutilation of faces and arms on the Parthenon's
decoration as one of her many, thunderingly memorable case
studies, Nixey makes the fundamental point that while we
lionize Christian culture for preserving works of learning,
sponsoring exquisite art and adhering to an ethos of "love
thy neighbor," the early church was in fact a master of
anti-intellectualism, iconoclasm and mortal prejudice.
Nixey is transparent about the particularity of her
motivation. The daughter of an ex-nun and an ex-monk, she
spent her childhood filled with respect for the wonders of
post-pagan Christian culture. But as a student of classics
she found the scales -- as it were -- falling from her
eyes.

Much more of this book review at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/books/review/catherine-nixey-darkening-age.html?mabReward=CBMG1&recid=15k92wzEdGzW0HulHAOP1P0GDcp&recp=2&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

https://www.hinduismtoday.com/blogs-news/hindu-press-international/how-christians-destroyed-the-ancient-world/16295.html

More articles at:

Hinduism Today Magazine
https://www.hinduismtoday.com

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

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From: burkesbabes@bigass-babes.com

On 6/16/2018 4:06 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:

How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World

Hindu Press International
Hinduism Today Magazine, hinduismtoday.com
June 11, 2018

UNITED STATES, June 8, 2018 (New York Times, by Bettany
Hughes): Vandalizing the Parthenon temple in Athens has
been a tenacious tradition. Most famously, Lord Elgin
appropriated the "Elgin marbles" in 1801-5. But that was
hardly the first example. In the Byzantine era, when the
temple had been turned into a church, two bishops --
Marinos and Theodosios -- carved their names on its
monumental columns. The Ottomans used the Parthenon as a
gunpowder magazine, hence its pockmarked masonry -- the
result of an attack by Venetian forces in the 17th century.
Now Catherine Nixey, a classics teacher turned writer and
journalist, takes us back to earlier desecrations, the
destruction of the premier artworks of antiquity by
Christian zealots (from the Greek zelos -- ardor, eager
rivalry) in what she calls "The Darkening Age."

Using the mutilation of faces and arms on the Parthenon's
decoration as one of her many, thunderingly memorable case
studies, Nixey makes the fundamental point that while we
lionize Christian culture for preserving works of learning,
sponsoring exquisite art and adhering to an ethos of "love
thy neighbor," the early church was in fact a master of
anti-intellectualism, iconoclasm and mortal prejudice.
Nixey is transparent about the particularity of her
motivation. The daughter of an ex-nun and an ex-monk, she
spent her childhood filled with respect for the wonders of
post-pagan Christian culture. But as a student of classics
she found the scales -- as it were -- falling from her
eyes.

Much more of this book review at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/books/review/catherine-nixey-darkening-age.html?mabReward=CBMG1&recid=15k92wzEdGzW0HulHAOP1P0GDcp&recp=2&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

https://www.hinduismtoday.com/blogs-news/hindu-press-international/how-christians-destroyed-the-ancient-world/16295.html

More articles at:

Hinduism Today Magazine
https://www.hinduismtoday.com

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

Christians should all be killed with extreme prejudice.

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From: byker@do~rag.net

"Colonel Edmund J. Burke" wrote in message news:c4vVC.223917$p05.39579@fx28.iad...

Christians should all be killed with extreme prejudice.

Just think, had the bubonic plague wiped out all the Christian Europeans,
the Americas would've remained undiscovered, with "noble savages" still
running around and the entire Eastern Hemisphere forever stuck in a medieval time warp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEYwXLpBpfI

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