Exactly!
That is why Christianity and Islam (Both Crusader Religions, meaning Covert by the sword or die) thrust the entire known world into "The Dark Ages" when they came onto the scene.
They exterminated the Intense Knowledge of the Ancient World.
Such as the Library of Alexanderia in Egypt. The Library we are told by Greek and Roman historians contiain scrolls and books going back to the beginning of time.
Books on biology, surgery. Engineering Scrolls telling how the Great Cities of the Ancient Past where built by whom and what for. There were books on advanced math and physics.. and ancient books of cultures past. It was also said that the library contained over 500,000 such books and scrolls. Alexandria was the Heart of Learning in the Ancient World.
The Library was saked and Burned to the Ground by Christians in 600ad. The Librarians begged begged the Christians not to do this. They were dragged into the Churches and their flesh flayed off with sea shells on the High Christian Alters.
The Christian in charge of the burning of Alexandria. A Bishop was made a Saint! For "Destroying Heathen Knowledge"
Historians today state that if we had the knowledge of Alexandria chances are we'd be living on colonized worlds in deep space.
But because of the Christians of that time. Here we are stuck on the Earth and very very close to wiping out Humanity with nuclear warheads..
The Christians and Islam plunged the World into a Dark Agea which we have yet to recover from.
Why did they do it??? Well simple to CONTROL YOU!
Oh and if you don't listen to them.. Your going to hell and Satan will get you..
Nightshade 09
Both the christians and muslims executed as many magi and their followers as they could get their hands on. Since the priesthood was inherited through descent, these programs wiped out entire genetic lineages.
How this relates to the "God gene" recently discovered by geneticists is unknown, but it might have been a way to permanently eliminate from humanity those with the drive and capability to understand higher things. Being a shaman or magus is related directly to the ability to repidly achieve trance state. If you eliminate the capability of receiving higher information from the population, then you corner the market. It was all about POWER which is exactly the last thing that spirituality should be about.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77394
