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   On 6/16/2018 4:06 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:   
   > How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World   
   >   
   > Hindu Press International   
   > Hinduism Today Magazine, hinduismtoday.com   
   > June 11, 2018   
   >   
   > UNITED STATES, June 8, 2018 (New York Times, by Bettany   
   > Hughes): Vandalizing the Parthenon temple in Athens has   
   > been a tenacious tradition. Most famously, Lord Elgin   
   > appropriated the "Elgin marbles" in 1801-5. But that was   
   > hardly the first example. In the Byzantine era, when the   
   > temple had been turned into a church, two bishops --   
   > Marinos and Theodosios -- carved their names on its   
   > monumental columns. The Ottomans used the Parthenon as a   
   > gunpowder magazine, hence its pockmarked masonry -- the   
   > result of an attack by Venetian forces in the 17th century.   
   > Now Catherine Nixey, a classics teacher turned writer and   
   > journalist, takes us back to earlier desecrations, the   
   > destruction of the premier artworks of antiquity by   
   > Christian zealots (from the Greek zelos -- ardor, eager   
   > rivalry) in what she calls "The Darkening Age."   
   >   
   > Using the mutilation of faces and arms on the Parthenon's   
   > decoration as one of her many, thunderingly memorable case   
   > studies, Nixey makes the fundamental point that while we   
   > lionize Christian culture for preserving works of learning,   
   > sponsoring exquisite art and adhering to an ethos of "love   
   > thy neighbor," the early church was in fact a master of   
   > anti-intellectualism, iconoclasm and mortal prejudice.   
   > Nixey is transparent about the particularity of her   
   > motivation. The daughter of an ex-nun and an ex-monk, she   
   > spent her childhood filled with respect for the wonders of   
   > post-pagan Christian culture. But as a student of classics   
   > she found the scales -- as it were -- falling from her   
   > eyes.   
   >   
   > Much more of this book review at:   
   >   
   > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/books/review/catherine-nixe   
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   > https://www.hinduismtoday.com/blogs-news/hindu-press-internati   
   nal/how-christians-destroyed-the-ancient-world/16295.html   
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   > More articles at:   
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   > Hinduism Today Magazine   
   > https://www.hinduismtoday.com   
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   > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi   
   > Om Shanti   
   > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj   
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   Christians should all be killed with extreme prejudice.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)