Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
In the anti-Catholic world of today, where a bronze-age inspired moon cult fascism named Submission, is lauded as 'religious', the revisionist history of Atheists and Secularists – resplendent in ignorance especially in English speaking countries – is being dismantled, by facts and history. The glory of the Catholic Church, as well as its errors, sometimes corruption, mistakes and infirmities, is being brought into focus, during the past 100 years [starting with Duhem, an apostate from the Atheist-Marxist revisionist school].
No longer is there a 'dark age', from 500-1000 AD, but an age of survival against the Moslem Jihad, the Viking-Moslem slave trade, the Viking raids, the Magyar-Hun irruptions; and the turmoil associated with the transition from the debilitated and deformed Roman world, to the modern [History Channel and other panegyrics to the 'glory of Rome' notwithstanding]. Gone is the idea that nothing happened, nothing was invented, and science and math did not exist. Only the wretchedly uneducated believe in such fairy tales.
In a very interesting book, 'Galileo goes to jail, and other myths about Science and Religion', there are chapters devoted to the mendacity that there is a conflict between science and faith; or that religion retarded inquiry. The opposite is of course true. Without the Catholic Church there is no modern world – from dissecting the human body and religion; from calculus to the cosmos; from optics to higher math; from blast furnaces to cathedrals; the poorly named Middle Ages were full of social, political, intellectual and scientific creation – all in the name of God and understanding the wonders of his design. In this vein there is no 'science', today the cult of warm, Darwin, monkeys to men; and other apocrypha all serve, and all are viewed through the prism of naturalism. There is no independent scientific establishment.
We
know for a fact that the Church was the biggest financier of science
in history until modern times. From 'Galileo goes to jail and other
myths.....'
“Catholic church has been probably the largest single and longest-term patron of science in history, that many contributors to the Scientific Revolution were themselves Catholic, and that several Catholic institutions and perspectives were key influences upon the rise of modern science.”
Newton
was not a deist, but a profoundly religious Christian:
“...philosophes of the eighteenth century created their own view of Newton as the apotheosis of the kind of secular reason that they advanced to replace Christianity, and an active God did not fit into their picture...”
“The notion of the world's being a great machine, going on without the interposition of God, as a clock continues to go without the assistance of a clockmaker; is the notion of materialism and fate, and tends, (under pretence of making God a supramundane intelligence,) to exclude providence and God's government in reality out of the world.”
“Newton was well read in Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and other mechanical philosophers, who sought to explain phenomena in terms of matter and motion. He was a mechanical philosopher himself, but he found Descartes' specific picture of the world as nothing but matter and motion theologically dangerous-where was there any room for free divine activity...”
Another example of mendacity: the Jesuits did not obstruct Galileo or any of the other 'scientists' of the 16th or 17th century, quite the contrary:
“Jesuits (officially called the Society of Jesus). Formally established in 1540, the society placed such special emphasis on education that by 1625 they had founded nearly 450 colleges in Europe and elsewhere. Many Jesuit priests were deeply involved in scientific issues, and many made important contributions. The reformed calendar, enacted under Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 and still in use today, was worked out by the Jesuit mathematician and astronomer Christoph Clavius (1538-1612). Optics and astronomy were topics of special interest for Jesuits. Christoph Schemer (1573-1650) studied sunspots,... “
Likewise the 'fat' friars and monks were indispensable to preserve, than extend science:
“...during the Scientific Revolution, Catholic monks, friars, and priests in missions constituted a virtual worldwide web of correspondents and data collectors. Information on local geography, flora, fauna, mineralogy, and other subjects as well as a wealth of astronomical, meteorological, and seismological observations flooded back into Europe from far-flung Catholic missions in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The data and specimens they sent back were channeled into natural-philosophical treatises and studies by Catholics and Protestants alike. This massive collection of new scientific information...”
Universities – a Catholic invention – soon built up specialized skills and created academies or organizations to reflect that focus. An example is the scientific focus of the Catholic university of Paris:
“Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, founded in 1666 and probably the most stable and productive of all early scientific societies, had a majority of Catholic members, such as Gian Domenico Cassini (1625-1712), famed for his observations of Jupiter and Saturn, and Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715), a convert to Catholicism and one of the most renowned and productive chemists of his day. Four of the early members were in orders, including the abbe Jean Picard (1620-1682), a noted astronomer, and the abbe Edme Mariotte (ca. 1620-1684), an important physicist.”
From the Middle Age milieu of inquiry, faith, reason and honest assessment of facts and observations, we have the rise of modern science:
“...catalog of Catholic contributors to the Scientific Revolution would run to many pages and exhaust the reader's patience. Thus it will suffice to mention just a very few other representatives from various scientific disciplines. In the medical sciences, there is Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), the famous anatomist of Brussels; while another Fleming, Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644), one of the most innovative and influential voices in seventeenth-century medicine and chemistry, was a devout Catholic with strong mystical leanings.' In Italy, the microscopist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694)... Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), was not only Catholic but in Holy Orders as a cathedral canon (a cleric charged with administrative duties). And lest it be said that he was simultaneously persecuted for his astronomical work, it must be pointed out that much of his audience and support came from within the Catholic hierarchy...”
Copernicus famously stated that he waited so long to publish his heliocentric work, due to the howling madness of academics invested in the Ptolemy's geocentric model. He was right. The Catholics were in the main happy with heliocentricity since it lifted the earth from the center, which according to scripture is dirty, unworthy and full of refuse, into an enlightened plane, further justifying faith and the belief in man's unique planet and creation. The problem with Copernicus was that his math did not support elliptical orbits – a fact that Jesuit astronomers had proven. It was another Christian Kepler who provided the math [not Galileo, who maintained weirdly that tides proved heliocentricity....]
In any event a list of Catholic scientists does indeed run to many pages. But of course Atheists and Moslems will invent Moslem and Arab names, link them to Cordoba of the 9th or 10th century, and state emphatically with no proof, 'without Islam, there is no Catholic scientific revolution...' Whatever.
Islam must be peace and love. Since 9-11 there have been some 25.000 moon cult 'terrorist incidents', created by 'lone wolf' Moslems, many suffering from 'mental illnesses', or 'being denied a mortgage', or perhaps 'integration' issues. Some were galvanized to murder innocents from 'Western aggression', and 'Islamophobia'. Or so the big brains in the MSM and within the political elite [the Liliputians], inform the peasantry. Moslem atrocity, Jihad, rape, sex-trading, polygamy, thieving, murder, gang warfare and pimping has nothing to do with Mein Koran or Suras such as the following from 'The Ants' right?
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And (remember) the Day when We shall gather out of every nation a troop of those who denied Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), and (then) they (all) shall be gathered (and driven to the place of reckoning), |
Such a peaceful ode to tolerance and diversity. Just like this one:
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And whoever brings an evil (deed) (i.e. Shirk polytheism, disbelief in the Oneness of Allah and every evil sinful deed), they will be cast down (prone) on their faces in the Fire. (And it will be said to them) "Are you being recompensed anything except what you used to do?" |
Christians are polytheists. They 'shirk' or reject the 'Oneness' of Baal the moon cult idol of Mecca. For that 'sin' [Mount Sinai is the Mount of Sin or Baal the moon deity], they must die. This is called religious inspiration by smart people.
In fact there are 11 verses of violence in this Sura, which of course confuses the multi-culti, who then twist violence into peace; hate into love; a cult into a religion; a fascism dedicated to the extermination of the 'Other', into a boy-scout jamboree.
Really clever people also now equate the Moslem Baal with the Christian idea of God. Your pet rock is likewise a God, so too was Chinghis Khan's 'Tengril'. Baal is the anti-thesis of the Christian concept of the godhead. The two ideals share nothing in common.
Sura 27 or 'The Ants' as a theological or philosophical elucidation, is completely inane and presents nothing which is coherent or mildly interesting. The thrust is that non Moslems will be crushed like Ants underneath the sandaled foot of Allah's warriors, much as Solomon supposedly crush Ants who did not follow his kingship. I have no idea what Solomon – a bad King in many ways – has to do with the Meccan moon cult which appeared some 1500 years after he eviscerated Israel through profligate spending and internal rancor through polygamy and the attendant worship and enshrinement of pagan idols.
We can understand however, why Mein Koran uses Ants to describe Christians and non-Moslems. Ants are low born creatures, crawling, biting, pulling, unworthy of much appreciation, and easy to destroy. Thus will the Meccan moon cult deal with Christians and those who oppose Mein Muhammadism. Crushed under the armies of Jihad.
Perhaps as well King Solly and friends were baying at the moon idol Baal, represented in the ancient world by the golden calf. This indeed would please Mein Koran devotees, providing a linkage back to the Jewish empire which pre-dates the Moslem Jihad by 1600 years. It is certainly possible, given the general insanity of Solomon in the last 1/4 of his life, that he would have built a pagan temple to Baal. But this conjecture does not excuse the execrable Sura from its own poor organization, incoherency and intolerance.
120
dead from a Moslem attack in the center of Paris. Moslems with
machine guns screaming
Allahu Akhbar, which means Allah or Baal the moon deity is the
greatest amongst the gods. MSM, Politicians and Moslems will all
scream about Islamophobia, racism, how Islam created civilization,
and why Europe needs to feed 10 million hungry Syrian
refugees, moon cult members and Jihadis,and self-immolate.
“‘I Saw Bodies’ in Paris’s Night of Terror,” by Dana Kennedy, Michael Weiss and Justin Miller, The Daily Beast, November 13, 2015: Suicide bombers and gunmen struck the capital of France in one of the worst attacks in the West since 9/11.”
Action Plan:
It is high time that Western states stop all Moslem immigration.
All Mosques must be investigated, cleansed, shut down if they are preaching Mein Koranic fascism.
Any Moslem associated with any activity that is treasonous, racist or violent needs to be deported at once.
But the witless worms – the cultural Marxists, Muzzie apologists, the raving mad Moslem supremacists, the media, the politicians – will all call for the opposite.
Sura 26 or the Poet, just confirms that the supremacist and dialectical 'we are the last and most supreme ones', of Mein Koran wears thin after about 100 repetitions. Mein Koran claims that all of the Hebrew Prophets were actually devotees of Baal, the moon god of Mecca, called Al Lah – the Lord. This is the main idea of Sura 26. Yawn. Heard that already. Baal is of course the antithesis of the Hebrew philosophy espoused by the Old Testament Prophets.
I have a hard time envisaging the genius of Isaiah in 700 BC, one of the great thinkers and seers in history, being a member of the Babylonian Sin or Baal cult. Every aspect of Judaic monotheism was opposed to the celestial worship and attendant barbarities of Near Eastern cults, including that of Baal. It does the Arab world no justice, that its main export – the cult of Submission – is a Bronze age relic and barbarism.
The hate of Islam, or rightly Muhammadism, toward the Unbelieving 'Infidel', or Other is expressed candidly in the Poets:
“They [non Moslems], they will be thrown headlong into the (Fire), - they and those straying in Evil,” [26:94].
So you the human slave of Allah must fear the great deity,
“So fear Allah and obey me.” [26:126]
This is repeated 8 times in this Sura. Fear the moon deity and obey its whims as constructed in the Koran, and propagated by the illiterate warrior Mad Moh. Obey and fear. This sums up Islam. A system of fear, repression, with an anti-human animus.
“So they rejected him [the Messenger], and We destroyed them. Verily in this is a Sign: but most of them do not believe.” [26:139] And, “But the rest [who did not believe] We destroyed utterly. We rained down on them a shower (of brimstone) and evil was the shower on those who were admonished (but heeded not) !” [26:173, 174]. “So fear Allah and obey me.” [26:179].
Feel the joy, the animated spirit, the tolerance, the benevolence to those who wish not to worship celestial objects, but engage in a true practice of real faith.....
18% of this Sura advocates hate speech and violence against non Moslems. This Sura is particularly concerned with the message that to be a good member of the cult, you must 'fear Allah and obey me', mentioned no less than 11 times [11, 108, 110, 124, 126, 131, 144, 150, 163, 179, 184]. Fearing Allah and acting like his slave is hardly conducive to free-will, thinking, independence and inquiry. But then we have the violence.
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So they have indeed denied (the truth this Qur'an), then the news of what they mocked at, will come to them. |
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Then they will be thrown on their faces into the (Fire), They and the Ghawun (devils, and those who were in error). |
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So they belied him, and We destroyed them. Verily! In this is indeed a sign, yet most of them are not believers. |
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So invoke not with Allah another ilah (god) lest you be among those who receive punishment. |
Deny the 'truth' of Mein Koran and off with your head. 'Invoke' the Christian Trinity and you will be annihilated. Not much in the way of multi-culti piety and tolerance.
If Islam is a religion, so too are other intolerant cults of supremacism such as Atheist Nazism, or Atheist Communism.
The 'other side' of the Monkish orders. Monks were indispensable to saving and extending civilization. Everything from the preservation of classical authors, unbelievable art and literature, including the first histories of many nations, on to brewing, artesian wells and water milling, can be traced to the energy and often-times sheer genius of monks and their religious orders. As Jones and Ereira write of the amazingly productive Cisterian order, who in some 30 years went from 1 Abbey to 350 scattered across Europe:
“Cistercians were natural businessmen. At Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire they turned wool production into a major money-spinner, breeding a super-sheep that produced the highest-quality wool in Europe. By the end of the century they were responsible for most of the wool exported from England. Meanwhile, at neighbouring Rievaulx the monks moved into heavy industry, developing mining and iron-smelting technology that put them way ahead of their time..”
The Monks were indeed businessmen, as well as warriors for the faith, both in spirit and in arms. But over time there came to the fore, the secularization of the Monkish orders. In summary, they were bought off by the well-to-do, the Kingly, the elite. The image of the fat-beer drinking priest, is perhaps exaggerated but likely based on the truth, that Monks ate and drank extremely well – some 7000 calories a day it is calculated in some cases, which is twice what you need.
William the Conqueror did not initiate the process of the state using monasteries for its own ends, but he helped it along, by giving 1/4 of the land in England to the Church, mostly in the forms of abbeys in which monks would pray for the salvation of Norman warriors, including himself. The idea was that in a violent age, the souls of fighting men needed saving.
“It became the custom for rich people and fighting men like the Norman soldiers, whose ways of life put their souls in such great jeopardy, to pay monks to do the praying they were too busy to do for themselves. This had one profound effect: prayer became a commodity. It gained a commercial value and this was eventually to prove the undoing of the whole system...”
Ereira and Jones are right. Once you price a prayer, the entire system can be bought. And it was. Monasteries became fabulously wealthy, many with running hot and cold water, and waste removal – luxuries not seen since Rome - all due to secular patronage. Bishops became more like Kings of the flesh, than Kings in Christ. The usual assortment of debasement and corruption naturally followed the money. I remember reading that Wilifred the great 7th century Bishop had a gold throne and his coronation included 12 monks lifting him up on the gold throne, to signify perhaps, that he was as mighty as Christ, or at least as any secular King. These men were politicians, not priests.
“The most powerful bishops and archbishops were career politicians, with little or no theological training. For them the Church was a political and economic power base...”
Various revolts including the poorly named 'Peasants revolt' of 1381, stemmed from Church and monastic corruption. Wyclif, the Oxford doctor, who initiated the 1381 irruption, mightily declaimed against this corruption of the faith. From 1200-1500, monks and abbeys, including rich Bishops and fat priests, were targets of mobs, attacks, violence and loathing. Many of the monks and Church elite, were secular men, faintly familiar with Christianity, and certainly more interested in worldly power, than spiritual grace.
The image of the fat priest, devouring mutton, whilst somewhat oblique, is based it appears on reality. Once the monastic orders put their spiritual offerings up for sale, the end result was inevitable.
An entertaining and elucidating work, based on the popular TV series, which seeks to debunk the myth of the 'dark, savage, ignoble', Middle Ages. Some of the greatest art, architecture, literary output and scientific achievements come from the era 500-1500, not to mention ambitious and far-reaching technological advancements in warfare, agricultural cultivation, civic life, medical care, capitalism, trade and social institutions. Simply put, the propaganda issued against the Medieval period, on-going since the 'Rebirth' era, is based on prejudice and ignorance, not fact.
To whit, the glaring stupidity of the 'flat earth' lie:
“There is no doubt that intelligent people in the Middle Ages knew perfectly well that the earth was a globe. Aquinas, in the thirteenth century, wrote that, ‘the astronomer and the natural philosopher both demonstrate the same conclusion, such as that the world is round; yet the astronomer does so through mathematics, while the natural philosopher does so in a way that takes matter into account.’ Roger Bacon, living at the same time as Aquinas, had been taught that Greek mathematicians had measured the earth’s circumference. It was obvious that it was round – for how else did things disappear..”
From the 5th century AD, one can read Christian accounts of the sphericity of the earth, and many attempts to either confirm or refute Eratosthenes' calculation of the earth's circumference. Anyone who sailed a ship knew that the earth was not flat. The Medieval Europeans possessed some of the finest navigators in world history. Many nations lived off of the sea trade, including fishing. No one believed that the earth was held up by Atlas, or that it was flat, layered between heaven and hell.
In fact flat earth societies were only started and flourished at the time of Darwin – mostly to spite the sneering pomposity of the professorial elite [sound familiar?]; and to mock their sense of 'certainty' and of course to ridicule their 'science'. The most famous was that of Parallax an educated doctor, who to spite the ridiculous arrogance of 'scientists', gave public lectures using scientific calculations, as to why the earth was flat. Many thousands paid good money to hear him speak – and watch him quickly disappear after the lecture.
According to 'Enlightenment' [abiogenesis, phlogiston, witch burnings] propaganda, it was Newton and Galileo who rescued man from darkness. The Galileo myth is as factual an account of real science as the Grimm Fairy tales. Newton was an alchemist and Biblical scholar, and many of his ideas were being discovered and worked on 500 years previously. Bacon for example some 400 years before Netwon, discovered the spectrum embedded in light. He was an optics expert.
“Bacon’s inquiries were essentially inspired by religion; the pope supported his work and was eager to read what he wrote. He was also doing what we think of as real science, and alarmed his students by breaking white light up into the spectrum of colours: ‘The experimenter considers whether among visible things, he can find colours formed and arranged as given in the rainbow.’ When Bacon created a rainbow by passing light through some glass beads he was 500 years ahead of Isaac Newton – especially when he measured the angle of displacement of the beam correctly. He was demonstrating that... “
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“Bacon was based in Paris, and thirteenth-century Paris was throbbing with new ideas about philosophy and theology. At the heart of the ferment was the study of Aristotle’s writings, and the way his ideas were being handled in a Christian context by scholars like Thomas Aquinas. One establishment response was the so-called ‘General Condemnation of Philosophy and the Sciences’ by the bishop of Paris in 1277. This has traditionally been described as an attack on reason – which is rather misleading. The Church was trying to resist a new dogmatism of rational certainty which seemed to challenge...”
Today we have the dogmatic cult of 'science'. Whatever science might mean. It certainly is a step backwards.
Roger Bacon is just one example of mathematical and scientific curiosity which can be traced back into the 11th-13th centuries. Alchemy, which has received plenty of calumny, was the precursor to modern chemistry. Without Medieval alchemists, we would not have our modern understanding of chemistry. The alchemists in Europe experimented and discovered a variety of new compounds, gases, acids and processes which had a measurable impact on chemical understanding, leading to improved medicines in some cases, or better processes in the manufacturing of various compounds which could be put to good social usage. The idea of turning lead into gold might sound odd to the modern mind, but it was the basis for a wide range of important discoveries, that later eras could build upon.