[Peace-discuss] Historical myth

[C. G. Estabrook]

It's "false in every identifiable detail," as those who've actually studied 
history know perfectly well.  Hart spends six chapters destroying this 
capitalist myth, but it's really nothing new.

I'd be happy to buy you a copy of the book, if you'd read it, Mort.


On 5/14/10 4:19 PM, Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> Seems to me that almost all of what he says in this paragraph is true, but
> not as categorically as he states,--- except for his last sentence. ;-)
>
> So this is where you went wrong?
>
> --mkb
>
> On May 14, 2010, at 4:10 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> "Secularists invite us to believe the following story. In the medieval ages
>> of faith, culture stagnated, science languished, wars of religion were
>> routinely waged, witches were burned by inquisitors, and Western humanity
>> was enslaved to superstition. The literary remains of antiquity had been
>> consigned to the flames, and the achievements of Greek science lay
>> forgotten until Islam restored them to the West. The age of faith was
>> succeeded by an age of reason and enlightenment, which gave us the riches
>> of scientific achievement and political liberty, and a new and
>> revolutionary sense of human dignity. The modern separation of Church and
>> State has put an end to the blood-steeped intolerance of religion. Western
>> humanity has at last left its nonage and attained to its majority in
>> science, politics and ethics. 'This is,' Hart says, 'a simple and
>> enchanting tale ... its sole defect is that it happens to be false in every
>> identifiable detail.'"
>>
>> --From Oxford philosopher Anthony Kenny's review of "Atheist Delusions: The
>> Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies," by David Bentley Hart
>> (Yale UP, 2010). Kenny co-taught with the late Herbert McCabe, Terry
>> Eagleton's mentor (and mine).
>>
>> http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/anthony_kenny_on_atheist_delusions_20100514/
>>
>>
>>
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