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Originally Posted by All-American
Seattle, do you wish that the Great Library at Alexandria had not been destroyed?
Wouldn't you be thrilled if it were able to be restored in its exact condition that it had before it burnt to the ground?
If so, then by your own argument, you are as ridiculous as we are.
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I don't get your point. But I'll try to respond. Romans, Christians, and Muslims all may have sacked and/or had a hand in deliberate burning of the library. Caesar and other Romans apparently took many works back to Rome. The library also may have burned accidently, as such things oftend did in those days. There were numerous fires over time. In any event, it's true that Christians in late antiquity destroyed much of the Greeks' works and executed many philosophers. But they weren't Christians who appreciated their Hellenistic roots and cultuural DNA. They were like Mormons who repudiatat their Hellenistic roots and cultural DNA. In other words, it wasn't because of apostasy from Christ's pristine teachings that Christians killed philosphers and burned books. It was because of their apostasy from Hellenism. Same with the Muslims who may have done it. The Muslims are unfairly maligned, however, in this regard, becasue there may not have been much left of the library when Islam arose. In fact Hellenized Muslims in Islam's earlier days preserved a great many classical works, as we've discussed here.