Hi Poirot,

Prince Charles also supports coffee enemas for cancer, homeopathic treatments and rolling back the Industrial Revolution so we can feed seven billion people off rotten organic tomatoes. Hopefully the Brits will have him safely under confinement soon after Liz pushes off.

Hi Jon J.

Well, there ya go...that's why I'm drawn to his ideas on art...I'm in favour of winding back the Industrial Revolution as well - or at least adapting our human ingenuity towards the development of less polluting mechanisms... (not too sure about the coffee enemas though).

Poor Sells, Stuck in the middle ages.

P.S. The earth circles the sun.

Jon J

You mistake me. I am not saying that the Greeks have not been important. Augustine was a neoPlatonist, Aquinas was an Aristotelian. Greek philosophy was the handmaid of Christian theology almost up to the present time. The New Testament was written in Greek, surprising since the Old was in Hebrew. This dramatic change came about because of the spread of Greek thought and language. There has been the suspicion that Greek philosophy has obscured the world of the bible, but theologians could not have developed sophisticated theologies without it.

If you read the history of the West, you have to understand the church. Christianity was basic to European history, that cannot be under dispute. You may hate Christianity but you certainly must give credence to the major role it has played in the development of the West.

Peter Sellick

Pot calls kettle black

Each blind to his own "rubbish"

Art is as art does

Absolutely Sells, the development of Western culture and progress is littered with the graves of discarded ideas.

Some ideas outlive their usefulness and relevance to reality, that is the future. We need not hold on to them as 'living' or current ideas, but merely preserve them in museums and histories, so as to remember what has come before.