michael adams wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Never mind progess, at least as some people would term it, in the
arts.

Ditto.

Or the Renaissance.

That didn’t happen because of a tendency for people to disagree or argue
about almost everything.

Oh yes it did,

Oh no it didn’t.

The Rennaisance came about as a result of different artists being
sponsored by rulers of competing Italian City States who were at constant
war with each other.

That’s just the rulers, not everyone else.

Painting and sculpture became status symbols which
is what led to the developement of different styles.

Still nothing to do with a tendency for people
to disagree or argue about almost everything.

It applied to the other arts as well.

Still nothing to do with a tendency for people
to disagree or argue about almost everything.

The stulifying effect of Roman Catholicism

That’s a complete myth with the big
advances in science that it produced.

was being challenged on all sides

Only really in religious matters.

and by all sorts of competing influences.

Only really in religious matters.

That of classical world for a start, humanism blah blah.

Still nothing to do with a tendency for people
to disagree or argue about almost everything.

reams of your desperate attempt to bull**** your way
out of your predicament flushed where it belongs