Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the Church onto the political and social scene brought this insistence down to the popular level and won for her an even greater hatred from "word merchants". All manner of lies had to be told about Christianity in order to bring this truth-loving "monster" to bay. Taken from: The Black Legends: The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Anti-Catholic Myth - 2003 VonHildebrand Institute