Re: WHAT calendar for the current year 2012

R A Brown wrote:

> quoting me:
> > For example, I doubt if Christianity would have taken hold.
>
> Why on earth not?? After all *here* it precisely was in the Greek-
> speaking and thoroughly hellenized east that Christianity did take
> off!
>
> But may be it's best not pursue this as we may easily trespass into
> the minefield of "cross and crown."
You may be right, but before we are stopped, let me just briefly
explain why. I think it needed a powerful and seemingly invincible
empire, particularly one with good communications. Otherwise people
seeking power or seeking refuge from an oppressive life would just
have exploited ordinary outlets. I got the impression that your
Hellenistic empire crumbled just like the historical one did. Maybe I
just read too fast.

Western civilisation is kind of like such a powerful and seemingly
invincible empire. I think that's why it has been challenged by a
series of more or less lunatic factions: fascism, Soviet communism,
islamism, to mention a few. I wonder how invincible it really is.

LEF

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