"The advent of Christianity plunged classical philosophy into centuries of forgetfulness and collided with the long-established European belief in the inequality of men.... Christianity came to teach that all men were equal before the eyes of a universal creator God, an idea which was wholly alien to ancient European thought, which had recognized a hierarchy of competence among men - and even among the Gods. Contrary to the traditions of classical philosophy and scientific inquiry, Christianity introduced the concept of a single, omnipotent " God of history, "who controlled all the phenomena of the universe - men and women being creations of such a god, since all men and women were "children of God", all were equal before their Divine Creator! Supposedly prophetic revelations by the Church became more important than scientific or philosophical research, and questioning the view of reality that the Church had come to be perceived as sinful."
-Roger Pearson
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