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America's too.


the phallusy fallacy


you could more accurately relate it to the Greek war with the Persians. That's where many of the tropes about Western freedoms vs Eastern tyranny originate. Long before the Latin church was heard of.

See Aeschylus' The Persians


Look at the volume of quotations of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) by medieval philosophers as a counterpoint.


That's more of a statement of the 'Plato to NATO' Western civilization meme than anything real.


Newgrange has nothing to do with the Celts: it predates their arrival by several thousand years.


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