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Originally posted by Pointless Poster@Jul 31 2003, 01:49 PM
The Middle Ages, the long pause between the fall of the Roman empire and the Renaissance, when the world went dark and ignorance held sway, lasted from the fifth to the sixteenth century.
The tax collectors, the curales became surfs; from their own pockets came any defiency in collections. The only escape from the dubious role through any ascension to the Roman Senate.
Christianity spread through the decaying empire that gradually got obscured in the mists of time.
Just as Rome collapsed, are we facing our own end of our great nation?
You would probably say no, just like the Romans did. The real answer was yes and I fear that could also apply to our country.
Where will we be in a century? A millenium? Only time will tell the true answer.
We must not gain ignorance and take things for granted, like the Romans. We must also be aware of the fact civilization depends on books. The written language transcends individuals, and ultimately testifies to the history, dreams, aspirations, and accomplishments of a nation.
To destroy what is written insults the very God who created life.
Any literature, which grips the child's imagination and compels him to read, is good .
Which makes the outcry against the Harry Potter books rather puzzling. How one come to the conclusion that in the around 2,500 pages of the Harry Potter saga, a literary classic, lies some sort of demon, eager to corrupt young children in the name of Beelzebub, is beyond my comprehension.
Rather than damning the teen-age boy wizard, we should be grateful of him showing millions the joy in reading.
How one conjures images of the devil and his kin possessing a British woman to convert millions to Satanism by using delightful books is beyond the streches of human logic.
The real horror to the whole campaign against Harry Potter are visions of books being burned...a dance to the tune of ignorance.
This editorial made me cry...
Where'd you find that?