The BIrth of Freedom

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Considering all the other religions and non-religions that have existed throughout the world during America's history, I would have to say we are fortunate that it was the Christians who had the predominant influence upon our country.

You mean the people who were too uptight for Great Britain, or the kind souls who brought us the Temperance movement and Prohibition [[since we obviously have nothing else to worry about)? Or the 21st Century Evangelicals who insist that the Federal government legislate their "faith" upon the rest of the populace, and elect people like Jim DeMint to do their bidding?

I didn't watch the program, and Maxx doesn't want to hear this, but the educated classes in the Dark Ages--those who could read and write--were most often the clergy. It goes without saying that the clergy in the Middle Ages *were* the ones who disseminated information, purely by default. Without the clergy doing so, there would have been virtually ZERO dissemination.