Re: Hard Sci-fi?

Remus Shepherd <remus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bernard Peek <bap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> DougL <lampert.doug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
> 
>> >For that matter as far as anyone can tell WRITING able to do more than
>> >simple accounting was invented by and for religions.
> 
>> It's true that some time later the Church adopted a policy of keeping 
>> the Bible in Latin so that the general populace couldn't read it. That 
>> was a tem****ary aberration though.
> 
>   A 'tem****ary' aberration that lasted from the 16th century to the
1960s.

That qualifies as tem****ary for an organization which has been around for 
two thousand years. Think of a great teacher who spent all of his life 
teaching kids to read, except for a period of a decade where he sort of 
went crazy and told all of his students that they'd be better off quitting

school and working on the farms.

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Mike Ash
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