Where does that say pain relief is forbidden.
It doesn’t. Church officials were not against all pain relief, which appears to be the straw man argument you’ve constructed. They were against relieving pain during birth, because God was believed to have given women that pain in response to Eve’s disobedience. Thus, using anesthesia to relieve pain during birth is to avoid a punishment from God.
The greeks were among the finest soldiers the world has seen.
Some Greeks were fine soldiers. Sure, the Spartans were great, but they made up a small portion of the Greek population. The Athenians, who made up a much larger portion, were pushovers, unless we count the naval battles, I guess.
Everyone has heard of the Spartans, at Thermopylae just 300 Spartan specialist soldiers brought the entire Persian Empire army to a halt.
That depends on what you mean by “just.” Yes, there were “just” 300 spartans, but there were not “just” 300 soldiers. The article on Wikipedia says that there were many other Peloponnesians, such that anywhere from 5200 to 7700 men were fighting, depending on the interpretations of the reports. This force managed to kill 20,000 Persians, though about 3000 of the Greeks fled while Leonidas and his last men held off the Persian army.
Also, you’re embellishing the situation a bit. The Persians were delayed because Thermopylae was a mountain pass. In fact, the Wiki article says that the battles during the first day of the Battle of Thermopylae took place on an especially narrow segment of the pass. It was said, in fact, that only one chariot could pass through at a time. As you can see, the conditions were such that the Greeks would only have had to fight a single wave of men at a time. This was not 300 men combatting an army of thousands in open plains. This was thousands of men combatting thousands of men by clogging the only exit of the pass known to the Persians.
Considering all this, Greek soldiers were not nearly as impressive as you make them out to be.
What is the exact number of atheists in the world today and what moral laws have been slackened in the CC.
In America, I know that the percentage of atheists and agnostics is around 20% of the population. Granted, the surveyors responsible for this statistic have no clue of what agnosticism is, so this may not be entirely reliable. Regardless, our numbers are rising, and this is undeniable.
Since we’re talking about historical events, I’ll give an old example of slackened moral laws: nobody follows any of the suggestions in Leviticus, for example.
Sorry about the Alexander example. I suppose I misspoke. Regardless, Alexander is said to have paved the way for Christianity by spreading Hellenism. Christianity had a lot of bullies helping it back then.
