Idea Name
Context / Source
Nassim Nicholas Taleb On Christianity
url: https://medium.com/incerto/on-christianity-b7fecde866ec Tweet url:
Key Idea
Holland correctly busted that myth probably based on some true but not representative anecdote: these “Arab” preservationists were almost all Syriac speaking Syro-Mesopotamian Christians who operated mostly in Bagdad’s Beit al Hikma,
Ernest Renan was correct in claiming that much of the Arab golden age was Greco-Sassanian. The “Greco” in it was Christian.[5]
See also
We forget how radical Christianity actually was in the ancient world