[lit-ideas] Re: Ignorance and Superstition and the Passion
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:02:04 -0700 (PDT)
--- Scribe1865@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 4/7/2004 3:47:48 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> But I don't see how this could be taken to
> excuse the crime or to suggest that it never
> happened.
> Many of the West's most valuable notions -- science,
> reason, empiricism,
> medicine, a nonkingly legal system, philosophy,
> democracy -- are of Greek origin.
> Most of the intolerant, divisive, retrograde notions
> in the West come from the
> ancient near eastern cultures.
Right, the good things in the West came from the
Arians and the bad things came from the Semites. Then
came Hitler to bring some order to the place.
O.K.
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