Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: anti-religious flame Message-ID: <508@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 16:43:53 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxn.508 Posted: Sun Mar 18 16:43:53 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 01:32:46 EST References: <1549@stolaf.UUCP>, <1432@mit-eddie.UUCP>, <691@seismo.UUCP> <293@pyuxss.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 18 > I think the clearest example of Christians (and everyone > else for that matter) being persecuted is when the Muslims > invaded Europe. They did a good job of taking over Spain and I > rather doubt that they tolerated a lot religious diversity. But > of course, they had their good points too. They brought civilization > to an area that was pretty backward. Sharon Badian Sorry to disagree, Sharon. The Muslims indeed brought a good deal of civilization to Spain, and they also brought a good deal of tolerance. The Muslim controlled Iberian peninsula was the only place in all of Europe where Jews were given religious and intellectual freedom. Many great Jewish thinkers came out of this era. Of course, when the re-organized Christians returned to power, we all remember what they brought with them? ("I wasn't expecting a kind of Spanish Inquisition...") -- TEST