Mass Book Burning

From a facebook comment on book burning and objective truth:



Ironically, that has actually happened. At the end of the Roman Empire in 500 A.D. - 600 A.D. there was a mass book burning and purge of "Earthly Ideas" by the Catholic Christian Church. Every University was closed and every single book in the entire Roman Empire (that was not the Bible) was burned and destroyed. Every single book on art, architecture, music, history, literature, poetry, medicine, agriculture, mathematics, and animal husbandry was destroyed, except NOT the Bible. The ONLY REASON that any literature of any kind has survived, was because it was preserved outside the Roman Empire and outside the reach of the Catholic Christian Church. Fact.

This is similar to the mass burning of books by emperor Chin in 213 BC. He is reputed to have burned all books except the I Ching and four other books on agriculture. He burnt Confucian scholars alive, closed Universities and used conscripted labor to build the Great Wall.


I told a friend this and he said it reminded him of the burning of the library at Alexandria.  He thinks some ancient secrets might have been lost.  I mentioned that the library at Alexandria was actually burned three times: Once by Julius Caesar by accident, Once by the Christians on purpose, and Once by Islam again on purpose.


"Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it." - Mr. Atwater


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