You are jealous...

Submitted by Tekin (United States), Jun 4, 2007 at 10:09

Ancient Greece was destroyed by Christians and Byzantium. Do you really think under Christian oppression Hellenistic culture lived with no damage, until it was revived in Reneissance. By the way, how can you show Ancient Greece as an example to civilized Europe when rest of the Europe was full of barbaric tribes and only made slaves by Roman Empire.

Civilization moved from East to West not vice versa for thousands of years. Europe's religion is an eastern religion. Your god is a middle eastern man. We do not brand you as barbaric Christians today even it was the case for many hundred years. I think All this is jealousy. Ottoman Empire was a huge part of European civilization so why not today? Do you really think all Italians, Greek and Spanish managed to erase their macho, family oriented, religious cultural identities?

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