>start reading history>turns out literally everything we "know" comes from the church>even major "discoveries" like ancient manuscripts have church fingerprints all over themHow the fuck am I supposed to trust any of this shit about the Greeks and Romans and ancient Egypt etc. when it all comes from a single centralized place with its own agenda?
>>17429283the funny thing is you're too stupid to understand that the church was the people you as an athishit love and trust implicitly and would sling your bussy to in a heartbeat running the world.its the period when intellectual and academics ran the world. they've tried to get it going again with gommunism but it wont stick.and don't worry, most of them were faithless and self interested like (you)
They are clearly very ineffective at furthering their agenda and do not seem to be acting in their best interest or under any coherent rationale at all most of the time so I'm not too worried about this.
>>17429292is this a bot?
>>17429283Seething protestcuck
>>17429283>a single centralized place with its own agendaI think you're overestimating the coherence of the medieval churchthe popes might have wanted it to be one but a lot of bishops and kings had different opinionsalso, a lot of works came from copyists in the Byzantine Empire or the Muslim world, so we can compare editions and such
>>17429283Some Irish priest wasn't being closely supervised when he retrieved and made copies of texts
All that ancient greek and latin stuff was hidden, no one outside the cleric was allowed to read it until the renaissance
>>17429283There is some evidence of Clerics deliberately editing ancient sources (Josephus comes to mind) but the Catholic Church could not really be described as centralized in the Middle Ages. Read about any church council and you realize that the clergy was brimming with national and personal differences. The power to censor and control universities, monasteries, etc was limited and took a great deal of time.
>>17430482The Great Schism (the Western Schism) which ran for nearly a century and by the end of it, there were actually three people claiming to be pope at the same time,and resulted in Huss and Wycliffe writing the bible for the people to read.
So the church preserved our heritage?
the word propaganda was invented by the catholic church
>>17430448kek that just makes the whole thing even more suspicious
>>17429306No a seething collectivist that can't wait to grab dominion over his fellow man like the humanity hater he is.
>>17429306Even worse, a catholarper
