NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND
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The 21st century is in transition playing
elusively with reality with all sorts of aberrancies clogging the arteries of
discourse not unlike those experienced with Clerical
Skeptics in the Middle Ages.
The Christian Church came into prominence in the 4th
century as the state religion of the Roman Empire, but by the 6th
century the empire was gone and the church filled the vacuum largely in monasteries
in retreat, only to rise to prominence committing similar sins that had led to
the demise of Rome.
The “Fall of
Rome” was followed by the “Dark Ages,”
to reemerge as the Holy Roman Empire in
800 with Emperor Charlemagne at the helm.
Church and State would be nuzzled in mock solidarity for the next 400 years,
while the Islamic Golden Age was soaring
(see “Our Debt to Arabic Culture,”
Part 15).
The church, now the Roman Catholic Church, started its decline in the 12th
century with the ill-fated launching of the Holy Crusades into the Holy
Land. Meanwhile, appearing below the
radar were clerical skeptics pursuing the mysteries of nature and the universe
in defiance of the church, building their inquiries on the wisdom of Aristotle
and Islamic scholarship. This is their
backstory.
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