[mseebach]

Yes, you're basically wrong about those things, some more than others, but on the balance, wrong.

You're not displaying any willingness to study the basics of the 350 years of scholarship that supports the position that you so strongly disagree with. Believe it or not, I do actually understand the objections to this narrative (and while there are compelling points raised, I just don't think they're powerful enough to overturn the fundamentals), because understanding things means studying both sides in good faith. Factual knowledge does not "democratically rise to the top" of Quora. It's an interesting platform for surfacing alternative points of view and anecdotes, but we're some distance from actual knowledge.