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God's vacation-The Dark Ages??


The Dark Ages was when religion ruled the world.

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

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Hmmm, it was when the Christian religion actively destroyed all traces of previous "religions". I know what you mean though. Christianity is just as big a blight on the world as Islam is today.

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Hmmm, it was when the Christian religion actively destroyed all traces of previous "religions". I know what you mean though. Christianity is just as big a blight on the world as Islam is today.

Typical regressive left BS.

I'm guessing Hinduism and Buddhism are also "equally" as bad as Islam for you? Lol.

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ALL organised religions are blights..

I must point out the fact that Buddhism is NOT, repeat NOT, a religion.

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Christianity didn't destroy other religions. Stupid liberal nonsense. Have you heard of a little religion called Islam? Islam rose to power during the dark ages and conquered lands such as Spain and Constantinople (Istanbul).

The dark ages weren't dark because of religion, but because of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. And to be fair, they weren't that dark. Much knowledge was still kept in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines). Christian monasteries safeguarded a lot of the knowledge of the time, and contrary to popular belief, back in those days they weren't as anti technology as they eventually became. The same can be said of Islam. Islam was very progressive intellectually in the beginning. It was only later did they shun "liberal" intellectual beliefs and education.

Regardless, it was the fall of the Western Roman empire that created this vacuum and why a lot of technology was "lost". Although none of it was ever really lost.

It isn't fair to say the Christians were the conquerers during the dark ages. Aside from the crusades, they didn't do a whole lot outside of Europe. They were lucky they weren't conquered by the Muslims and later the Mongols.

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"The Dark Ages was when religion ruled the world."

No, churches did.

Besides, religion is not the same as God. Religion is bunch of dogma and misunderstood doctrines warped and distorted to serve greedy and spiritually dead churches.

The Divine Creator has nothing to do with religions. Religions are man-made. So it's not a contradiction - try again.

(I mean, this movie is silly and full of contradictions, stupidity and nonsense, but this bit wasn't one of them)

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Actually it is the opposite ---The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages, or occasionally the entire Middle Ages, in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual and cultural decline.
Significantly, Baronius termed the age 'dark' because of the paucity of written records. The "lack of writers" he referred to may be illustrated by comparing the number of volumes in Migne's Patrologia Latina containing the work of Latin writers from the 10th century (the heart of the age he called 'dark') with the number containing the work of writers from the preceding and succeeding centuries. A minority of these writers were historiansDuring the Reformations of the 16th and 17th centuries, Protestants generally had a similar view to Renaissance humanists such as Petrarch, but also added an anti-Catholic perspective. They saw classical antiquity as a golden time, not only because of its Latin literature, but also because it witnessed the beginnings of Christianity. They promoted the idea that the 'Middle Age' was a time of darkness also because of corruption within the Catholic Church, such as: popes ruling as kings, veneration of saints' relics, a licentious priesthood, and institutionalized moral hypocrisy.[21]

Probably to much for your anti-religionists

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