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Great passage from one of Zmirak's Bad Catholic's Guide:

His imaginary interlocutor: "Are you saying that Plato and Aristotle, Roman law and aqueducts, were an essential part of God's plan?"

Zmirak: "Every bit I am tempted to say, as much as Abraham and Moses. But that might amount to heresy. So I won't go quite that far. I'll just say that I'm very glad that the bishops who interpreted statements like, 'If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out' had been intellectually formed by the Greeks and not the Mongols. I don't think that was an accident."

A lot of Catholics have made this observation, of course, if not as humorously. In his Europe and the Faith, Belloc points out that it almost seems like Rome was divinely charged to bring about unity throughout the known world right before Christ's birth: from the western Mediterranean through Greece to Egypt, Rome expanded at an alarming rate in the few generations before His birth.

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