When Saint/Emperor Justinian closed the Greek philosophy schools at the beginning of the dark ages...?

Question

did the Christian Church object?

Answer 1

No. They celebrated the destruction of knowledge, of enlightenment and enslavement of the world to the religion created by Paul of Tarsus
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0010.htm

The school of philosophy had operated for almost 1,000 years and symbolically represents the time when the "lights went out" on rational thinking for almost 600 years.

St. Justinian was responsible more than any other Emperor for ensuring the conditions of hell on earth in cities to enable the plague to strike by 560 CE. Almost 100 million people died.

There were no physicians, no medical books left- they had all been killed and burned by christians.

The evil of the early church is well documented in the Almanac of Evil for those who care to read:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/end_of_darkness/evil/evil_0060.htm

Answer 2

Justinian was a Christian, but he was more a politician and knew knowledge was power. To consolidate his political power, he knew an ignorant populace was more compliant than a questioning, knowledgeable one. His astute political views concurred with both the sincerely ignorant and the sincerely power-hungry Christian leaders of this period who feared all ancient/current Greeks and the knowledge they had built. Not only did they close the schools of Greek philosophy to keep knowledge out of the hands of all but the church-political elite, they persecuted everyone who did not agree with their interpretation of the Christian scripture. Not until the Muslims rescued ancient Greek and other knowledge, built upon it, translated it, promoted and transmitted it, did the Christian west come out of the dark ages.

Answer 3

Justinian closed the NeoPlatonist Schools, but the real definitive beginning of the Dark Ages was when a flea bitten xtian monk led a mob into the Library of Alexandria and martyred the Neo-Platonist philosopher, St. Hypatia of Alexandria, which marked the end of any degree of free thought for 1500 years

Hypatia (b. 370, Alexandria, Egypt--d. March 415, Alexandria), Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher who was the first notable woman in mathematics.

The daughter of Theon, also a mathematician and philosopher, Hypatia became the recognized head of the Neoplatonist school of philosophy at [Index] Alexandria, and her eloquence, modesty, and beauty, combined with her remarkable intellectual gifts, attracted a large number of pupils. Among them was Synesius of Cyrene, afterward bishop of Ptolemais (c. 410), several of whose letters to her are still extant.

Hypatia symbolized learning and science, which at that time in Western history were largely identified by the early Christians with paganism. As such, she was a focal point in the tension and riots between Christians and non-Christians that more than once racked Alexandria. After the accession of Cyril to the patriarchate of Alexandria in 412, Hypatia was barbarously murdered by the Nitrian monks and a fanatical mob of Cyril's Christian followers, supposedly because of her intimacy with Orestes, the city's pagan prefect. Whatever the precise motivation for the murder, the departure soon afterward of many scholars marked the beginning of the decline of Alexandria as a major centre of ancient learning.

According to the Suda lexicon, Hypatia wrote commentaries on the Arithmetica of Diophantus of Alexandria, on the Conics of Apollonius of Perga, and on the astronomical canon of Ptolemy. These works are lost, but their titles, combined with the letters of Synesius, who consulted her about the construction of an astrolabe and a hydroscope, indicate that she devoted herself particularly to astronomy and mathematics. The existence of any strictly philosophical works by her is unknown. Her philosophy was more scholarly and scientific in its interest and less mystical and intransigently pagan than the Athenian school and was the embodiment of Alexandrian Neoplatonism.

Answer 4

Justinian wasn't/isn't a saint. He was widely criticized in his day, condemned by clergy and laity alike, and even personally chastized by Pope Leo.

Answer 5

I wasn't there. But if I had been, I wouldn't have objected. I probably would have pulled down my trousers--if I had any---and defecated on the spot, wiped my @rse with my hand and gone my merry way

Answer 6

put it this way,the presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Answer 7

No.