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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
all jokes aside, everybody realizes that religion is the origin and source of the written word, and in the western tradition, this bible which everyone believes is a load of crap is the source of European language and writing. It is the bible which preserved literacy in Europe, and subsequently the western world.
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that's a FUCKING JOKE
the goddamned church preserved ILLITERACY for hundreds of years by not allowing the masses to read the bible (and by presenting their mass amss in latin, a long-dead language). there are many roman catholic churches in south america and africa and asia where this is still the prescribed practice, straight out of the motherfucking dark ages.
you have no knowledge of world linguistic history. if you did you would know that the written language was created in ancient sumerian times (pre-bible and pre-hebrews) as a means of keeping RECORDS, ussually crop records and sales records.
in other words, "the origin and source of the written word" is in BOOK-KEEPING and COMMERCE, not, I yell, NOT in religion.
you really ahve a deeply judeochristian-centric view of the history of the world my friend.