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There's no contradiction between saying that the early Christians tried to efface pagan culture.

They failed. They smashed a lot of temples and they burned a lot of books.

We only have... Hang on the second.

What evidence do we have for that?

Let me give you an example. We have seven of East Gillis's plays and we know the titles of 70.

What makes you think that we don't have them because Christians destroyed them?

This is atheist philosopher, A.C. Grayling, debating historian Tom Holland on whether early

Christians trashed antiquity.

Well, because the transmission of these things through antiquity, we know how many of these

documents had survived. And then we start...

But how do we know it was Christians who destroyed them? Well, we know the Christians

destroyed a great deal of the material culture of antiquity. I mean, all you have to do is just

read about the first couple of decades after 380 under Theodosius I.

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