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> BTW, boyz, if Christianity during the Dark Ages was the sole force which
> held back progress and set back the West's quest for knowledge, why aren't
> we simply writing this in Hindi or Chinese right now?
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> -Prof. Tim
The Chinese were for a time centuries ahead of the west. It is a very
good question that I have asked myself before and for the Chinese at
least I believe it was the combination of two things: The belief from
Confucius that society should be stable (don't want new inventions
rocking the boat) and a huge deadening bureaucracy. Plus of course
famine, flood, and plague.
Nate Hall