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Benedict XVI is right when he says that the West has "become Christian". The equation "Christian=Western", historically, is blasphemy.

— Peter Brown

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The "golden age" is the exception, normal history is "grey".

We Europeans have guiltily built the fracture between Europe and Islam, while instead the roots of these two worlds have been intertwined for a millennium.

We must candidly admit that we have created a 'dark age' to feel superior to the past.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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