peduto@pyuxv.UUCP (S A Peduto) (07/11/84)
As the author of the Gibbon comment, let me just say that if I had my druthers, I'd take Gibbon's ideas over those of any archeologist any time. Just call me a conservative. By the way, what's this resistance to accepting an opinion at least two hundred year's old, embodied in a book considered a classic? The point I was trying to make --simply-- is that Christianity was not the historical benefit its followers take it to be, and homosexuality -- or homo-eroticism-- or Gayness -- has a much longer and more honorable history. Nietschze, for example, held that Christianity was a philosophy of decadence.