They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: intolerance library islam koran quran absurdity science-vs-religion gospel alexandria caliph caliph-omar gregory-the-great library-of-alexandria pontiff
What can I say? I cleaned up nicely
Jennifer L. ArmentroutTags: alexandria
Love in my world usually ended up with someone hearing “I smite thee!” as she was cursed to be some lame flower for the rest of her life.
Jennifer L. ArmentroutTags: alexandria daimon
I'd be supper-pissed in the afterlife if I died a virgin in this crap hole.
Jennifer L. ArmentroutTags: alexandria
There are no known non-biblical references to a historical Jesus by any historian or other writer of the time during and shortly after Jesus's purported advent. As Barbara G. Walker says, 'No literate person of his own time mentioned him in any known writing.' Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (20 BCE-50 CE)—alive at the purported time of Jesus, and one of the wealthiest and best connected citizens of the Empire—makes no mention of Christ, Christians or Christianity in his voluminous writings. Nor do any of the dozens of other historians and writers who flourished during the first one to two centuries of the common era.
D.M. MurdockTags: history historians christian-apologetics alexandria historical-jesus epistles historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-new-testament bible-contradictions biblical-contradictions eyewitness-testimony philo-judaeus
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