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NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND

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The 21^st 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 4^th century as the state religion of the Roman Empire, but by the 6^th 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 12^th 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.