Re: Hard Sci-fi?

In message <1210901884.138307@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Michael Ash 
<mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>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.

The bible was translated into English long before the 1960s. The 
aberration lasted a century or so, not very long.


-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author.