Message from @McSchlick

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2018-06-04 14:08:27 UTC  

Catholicism

2018-06-04 14:08:38 UTC  

Yes it did

2018-06-04 14:08:44 UTC  

Catholicism did

2018-06-04 14:08:51 UTC  

Yes

2018-06-04 14:08:53 UTC  

Like I said your denying things that are already known

2018-06-04 14:08:54 UTC  

Thats not debatable

2018-06-04 14:09:13 UTC  

E you're fucking delusional lmao

2018-06-04 14:09:16 UTC  

Whatever world you came from is not this one

2018-06-04 14:09:39 UTC  

But just because someone can go to another galaxy doesn’t mean they can’t pray

2018-06-04 14:09:52 UTC  

Christianity nor catholicism caused the dark ages.

2018-06-04 14:09:55 UTC  

When the anarchists have more common sense than the fascists

2018-06-04 14:10:02 UTC  

So the abolition of Christianity wouldn’t mean automatic technological progress

2018-06-04 14:10:08 UTC  

Christianity causes the dark ages

2018-06-04 14:10:09 UTC  

Who did than @Mr. X

2018-06-04 14:10:12 UTC  

Its not debatable

2018-06-04 14:10:16 UTC  

@Mr. X the Catholics did

2018-06-04 14:10:18 UTC  

No it would mean ;lack of technological progress

2018-06-04 14:10:21 UTC  

No they didnt

2018-06-04 14:10:26 UTC  

How

2018-06-04 14:10:26 UTC  

WHO DID?

2018-06-04 14:10:30 UTC  

And who

2018-06-04 14:10:32 UTC  

Lol

2018-06-04 14:10:44 UTC  

Here

2018-06-04 14:10:57 UTC  

The cause of this "Dark Age" was the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the waves of invasions and raiding that followed it. Without the larger economy and administrative infrastructure of the Empire to sustain them, trade systems, large public works and educational systems all collapsed, contracted into local versions or died out in western Europe. And waves of invasions by various Germanic peoples, Avars, Moors, Magyars and Vikings made mere survival a higher priority than things like preserving books or maintaining road systems.

The idea that Christianity caused or significantly contributed to the fall of the Western Empire has long since been rejected by modern historians. It clearly wasn't a significant factor, since while the Western Empire collapsed, the equally (or even more) Christian Eastern Empire continued for another 1000 years without collapsing and without any "Dark Age". For a breakdown of why the Western Empire fell when the Eastern Empire didn't, see Tim O'Neill's answer to Why did the Roman Empire fall?

As much as it suits the agenda of some clumsy anti-Christian zealots to claim that Christianity caused the "Dark Ages" it's an attack based on a weak grasp of history. Far from being its cause, Christianity was the only institution that preserved the basics of learning in this period and enshrined philosophy and the study of logic and a deep respect for all learning, including pagan learning, in its curriculum. As a result, when Europe emerged from the early medieval centuries of chaos and invasion, it was learned churchmen who sought out lost books by Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes and Ptolemy and kick-started a revival of learning and inquiry that would lead to the scientific method and the rise of the West. Smart non-believers avoid flawed historical analysis driven by emotion rather than rational and objective analysis of the evidence.

2018-06-04 14:11:22 UTC  

Ah I see

2018-06-04 14:11:27 UTC  

The Catholics had almost absolute power in Europe during that period tho

2018-06-04 14:11:34 UTC  

You went directly to google found the first thing backing you and posted it

2018-06-04 14:11:49 UTC  

Try reading a book every once and a while

2018-06-04 14:11:55 UTC  

Correct. Catholics also invented many many things we use today. Your point is?

2018-06-04 14:11:58 UTC  

wow so there was very little technological progress during the dark ages??? who wouldve thought???

2018-06-04 14:11:59 UTC  

Its a better source of info

2018-06-04 14:12:11 UTC  

Kings obeyed whatever the pope said just to avoid his wrath lmao

2018-06-04 14:12:12 UTC  

@Leroy And that makes my source invalid how?

2018-06-04 14:12:23 UTC  

Fuckin Wikipedia info

2018-06-04 14:12:32 UTC  

Why would I read a history book if it demonizes my party?

2018-06-04 14:12:39 UTC  

It not wikipedia, try again.

2018-06-04 14:12:44 UTC  

It's the internet everyone on it's a fucking quantum physics professor

2018-06-04 14:12:49 UTC  

Its quora

2018-06-04 14:13:12 UTC  
2018-06-04 14:13:16 UTC  

Yes it had very little technological progress but it wasnt because of christianity, anarchist.

2018-06-04 14:13:29 UTC  

What @Leroy