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This image seems to imply that Christianity caused the dark ages. If I remember correctly, a lot of of the ancient knowledge was kept on the monasteries after
by huherto 13y ago
This image seems to imply that Christianity caused the dark ages.
If I remember correctly, a lot of of the ancient knowledge was kept on the monasteries after all the destruction caused by the plague and the fall of the roman empire.
The image also seems to imply that the greek, the egyptians and the romans were not religious civilizations.
BTW, I am not even a religious person. And I totally agree that science has a better track record than religion on curing disease.
- VLM 13y ago"This image seems to imply that Christianity caused the dark ages." For those HN readers (not necessarily implying the poster) uneducated in liberal arts, the topics to google for are "edward gibbon" and "the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire". If you're going to talk about something complicated, at least throw the noobs a bone. Gibbon in the 1780s is pretty much the source of this argument, or at least its strongest promoter. Not to say its universally agreed with. I'm not even going to attempt to paraphrase Gibbon's couple hundred pages of reasoning here, but a bit of google will take care of it for you. As a life goal I finished reading Gibbon a couple years back. Its kind of long, like 3000 or so pages and took me about two seasons, reading about a half hour per night. Maybe a foot or so on a bookshelf, although I read the project gutenberg ebook version. And a bit repetitious in parts, probably because that's just how life was back then. It was worth the time, overall, and I'd recommend it.