FEED MY BIAS ! My history is bad. I need sources!
I am always trying to make a connection between religion, health of society and education.
I start with the Christian destruction of the science and knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
Imperfect societies that they were, the disrupters were not about compromise.
Then Islam seems to have taken over as being enlightened until they moved back into the caves and then the European Rennassaince took hold (?) . Until the kings and popes destroyed all of that and......
We had the USA Enlightenment ....which is now under unceasing attack. And the country seems to be getting dumber as the religious Wrong gets louder
Maybe all I really need to do is study up on World History.....there's just too much, I'm too old....I'll run out of time before I finish.
I really ask for more specific sources, i.e. starting points for me.
Thanks ALL !
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.go to Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" and follow the "religion is a tool" analysis.
JeffMesser
Level 8
May 25, 2020
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Interesting stuff. I haven;t had a chance to really dive into it. And I could not find "religion is a tool".
Link?
@twill you're gonna hafta read the book. I don't know of a link.
@JeffMesser Gotcha. When you wrote "go to" I was thinking internet
@twill it's an incredible resource - especially for a secular seeker. it helps see religion in its' proper perspective through history.
Good luck. We are in a phase now for the dumbing down of America in order to get you to not know exactly what to believe. This is done willingly and knowingly through QAnon, Plandemic videos, and other things. (They are soon to release Plandemic 2) Most people are part of the "deepfake" and do not even know it.
When I was a boy in school we were told of the evils of Russia and how in their communism they did not even have enough food. Do not believe it today. The drive is on now in our country to scare us into hoarding food because we keep seeing empty shelves. Russia is still like this. Freedom is losing out to panic and this keeps profits at the very top level. Many tell me now that business insiders claim the next 2 months of quotas are already met. Marketing tactics are changing with a trend to make us all just like third world countries. The motive behind it all is money. Many still believe that businesses can be brought back to America. How would this ever happen when it would lead to a loss of profit? We are being trained for something now and COVID-19 came along just at the right time. Prove all things because soon we will not know what to believe.
The Internet used to help me a lot but today you cannot look for an exact thing. Marketing has demanded that search engines produce what you are looking for along with related things. The trend is to make truth an individual thing. Either way, marketing today is selling you. You are now the product and you need a new app.
DenoPenno
Level 9
May 25, 2020
1
How many times have I heard "after all, this is a business."
What's really meant by that is someone making $$$ is more important than truth, justice, fairness, democracy, and so on.
I'm reading this now:
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Paperback – April 16, 2019
by Catherine Nixey (Author)
HumanistJohn
Level 8
May 25, 2020
3
Great book, great resource....I own it
Good luck with that. I once lived in Europe and got a degree in European History from the Univ. of Md. European Division. Still I have a general knowledge of some history at some time. Among historians there is a lot of specialization. One can get PhD in an area of history and still not know all the facts. Also, history is often about interpretation.
JackPedigo
Level 9
May 25, 2020
2
How far back does European History Study go?
@twill Mine went back just to some 2000 years ago. It was primarily Medieval history.
Breathe... 
History seems to be an endless cycle of 'knowledge is power' no, wait, 'knowledge threatens power -so let's pervert it', oh shit, that's not good, 'maybe we'll give that knowledge thing another try', etc. etc..maybe some day we will find balance.
Amzungu
Level 8
May 25, 2020
0
Does knowledge not shift/ physically ( libraries, schools, resources, research labs) move to the point of least resistance, where it is safest? Appreciated?
When the library at Alexandria was destroyed, it was a physical attack. Books destroyed, not all. Most Learned people headed for the hills......the murder of Hypathia did not bode well for them.
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