Diuretic
Permanently confused
nt250 said:Congratulations, I've been posting about Islam for almost 3 years now that that is the studiest reply I've gotten so far.
I'm an atheist, so I'm going to pull out the old "extraordianary claims require extraordinary proof" argument and ask you to please explain what your statement "The West as we know it wouldn't be here were it not for Islam" means.
Other than a lot of dead people.
It's difficult to be precise - I'm not an expert in the area is one reason, the other reason is that I have to wield a rather broad brush and I'll miss spots (ie I will be proven wrong on specifics. But, broadly speaking, the learning of the ancients was destroyed by the barbarian invasion (it wasn't totally destroyed and the barbarians themselves adopted some of the Greek learning but that's what I mean by details) and the Moorish Islamic scholars in particular preserved the learning of the ancient Greeks and extended it. Later it was the Scholastics such as St Thomas Aquinas who rediscovered Plato and Aristotle from the Moorish scholars. Aristotle in particular is so important to our society. That's what I meant.