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From: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
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Subject: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Right-handedness
Message-ID: <272@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 14:33:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 14:33:47 1985
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Summary: 

In article <3919@cca.UUCP> diegob@cca.UUCP (Diego Gonzalez) writes:
>> 
>> PLEASE!!!Don't blame the Catholic Church for the Dark ages! It DID NOT
>> Cause the Dark Ages! (Perpetuated it a bit maybe...but it did not
>> start it!  The COLLAPSE of the ROMAN EMPIRE did that.) The Church was
>> the few institutions that was able to retain a bit of the knowledge
>> through that time period of what had been known before.  (Note I did
>> not say ALL of the knowledge, NOR an unbiased viewpoint.  It was just
>> better than nothing.)
>
>"someting that affects us all.."  That is: to what extent did the Church
>contribute to the dimness of the "Dark" ages.
>
While I am interested in this particular subject, and agree it is worth
some discussion, I'm not sure this is the right place to do so.
All I wanted to point out was that the Church DIDN'T start the Middle
Ages.
Now ,as to where's the best place to discuss this -- any suggestions?

					Pam Pincha-Wagener