Re: The Need for Debate

I guess I was just thinking of things like galileo and the church when I
talked of the church and state preventing debate. :) But since my
knowledge of that period of history is limited to trying to remember
what I learned in school years ago, I guess I'll probably have to go
read up on it. But I certainly got the impression from my teacher in
school that the church especially supressed progress for centuries,
indeed I'm sure he gave this as the reason why there was so little
advancement in a lot of areas. *shrugs* I think there's always the
problem of propaganda in history: old lies develop strong roots and then
its very difficult to get rid of them. There's also often the problem of
perspective: for instance, the "barbarians" (Goths, Vandals etc) who
eroded the roman empire near the end. Were they really that bad? Was
there nothing important that was good to say about them? Surely there
was something more to them than going around killing romans and creating
chaos. But I've never heard anything about them apart from that fact.
Their claim to fame for most people is as destroyers. That was a little
random, but I often tend to ramble. :)

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