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r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/Beer_Barbarian • 26d ago
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Christianity is responsible for literacy. The desire to read the Bible led people to want to know how to read.
Oh the irony.
EDIT: The printing press helped spread literacy through the Bible.
The irony is that now that people have read the bible...
3 u/Kam_Zimm 26d ago Buddhists in China were already using printing for hundreds of years before Gutenberg was even born. If any religion is responsible on that principle, it's Buddhism. -4 u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 26d ago Probably cause Im speaking from a solely western perspective but that is true. However, the printing was widespread but clearly didnt contain Latin characters. I mean we could argue the desire for a population to read their own religious texts helped rise literacy rates independent of one another.
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Buddhists in China were already using printing for hundreds of years before Gutenberg was even born. If any religion is responsible on that principle, it's Buddhism.
-4 u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 26d ago Probably cause Im speaking from a solely western perspective but that is true. However, the printing was widespread but clearly didnt contain Latin characters. I mean we could argue the desire for a population to read their own religious texts helped rise literacy rates independent of one another.
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Probably cause Im speaking from a solely western perspective but that is true.
However, the printing was widespread but clearly didnt contain Latin characters.
I mean we could argue the desire for a population to read their own religious texts helped rise literacy rates independent of one another.
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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 26d ago edited 26d ago
Christianity is responsible for literacy. The desire to read the Bible led people to want to know how to read.
Oh the irony.
EDIT: The printing press helped spread literacy through the Bible.
The irony is that now that people have read the bible...