XBrain130 wrote:Source of the post Look, I'm not saying they deliberately erased or purged them, just that they might have not copied all of them.
Works were of course lost, not copied, but it has little to do with their contents contradicting biblical ideas. There were a large number of Greek and Roman works dealing with the gods, promoting views that are directly opposed to the single god of Abraham, but we still have a lot of those works, and do you know what, Christians read them and copied them.
XBrain130 wrote:Source of the post And as I already said, they weren't the only ones into it, Islam did copy classical works too, that might be why we ain't missing most of them.
Yes, some classical works would have been lost if they hadn't been preserved in the Islamic world. But it's nothing to do with Christianity being "anti-science" and Islam being "pro-science" or something like that. It simply isn't true.
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Because they valued knowledge? The Greek and Romans clearly did not worship the Christian god, but still their works were read and even influenced Christian theology.
Look, you were promoting myths. Sure, there were persistent dogmata, but you need to understand this in the contemporary contexts. In particular, there was no clear distinction between science, philosophy and theology. Astronomy, mathematics, meteorology, whatever, were all considered studies of the divine. Some Greek philosophers spoke against superstition and mocked god fearing people, but for the most part they weren't really atheists, but rather had the view that the gods didn't care about the affairs of men.