When religion ruled the world they called it "The Dark Ages". Is it true?

Question

How come I am not getting many answers? I will repost this question again!!

Answer 1

Yes, it is true. The majority of the people tortured and killed during the burning times were women and girls. True spirituality involves male/female. That is why the church has always made women servants of man and lesser then animals. Taking away our rights as human beings in order to play their religious propaganda. It is cruel and it is the reason the world is in such chaos. We must have balance. Yin, Yang. Women are the key to true spirituality. The church has hidden that for a few thousand years, going back to the beginning of monotheism.

Answer 2

the Roman Catholic Church and whatever form of paganism that the country folks did. The Church was more interested in converting king. If the king converted then it was assumed that the people he ruled converted, but the church was only interested in the kings because they had control of the money and the land. It was later they started to be concern about the conversion of the people.
Then again I might not be remembering this right. Research the dark ages religion yourself.

Answer 3

As salaamu 'alaikym, my friend.

Insha'Allah, when Christianity ruled Western Europe, superstition, ignorance, and fear gripped that part of the world. Learning and knowledge were seen as a danger to ones faith. Many books were banned and burned, along with several scientist. Anyone who did not agree with the teachings of the Catholic church (there we no Protestants back then) was labeled a heretic and the punishment for such was death.
It was, in deed, the "Dark Ages" of Western Europe.

Insha'Allah, during this same period of time, Muslim scientist and doctors were making extraordinary advances in medicine, astronomy, architecture, chemistry, the understanding of anatomy, mathematics, chemistry, administration and social policies all while maintaining the past learning of the Greek philosophers and critical thinkers , the very knowledge that was banned in Christian Europe.
Many of these advances, especially in medicine, are still in use throughout the world today.
The Dark Ages of Europe were the Golden Age of Islam!
Alhumdulillah!

ma'a salaam.

Answer 4

In European historiography, the term Dark Age(s) refers to the Early Middle Ages, the period encompassing (roughly) 476 to 1000 AD.

This concept of a Dark Age was created by the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature. Later historians expanded the term to refer to the transitional period between Classical Roman Antiquity and the High Middle Ages, including not only the lack of Latin literature, but also a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and material cultural achievements in general (for example, as shown in the impoverishment of technologies, such as pottery). Popular culture has further expanded on the term as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope.

Answer 5

Because people were kept in the dark by the ruling Papists.
It was against the law to read the Bible...
There is an informative ,accurate movie called Luther , About the Martin Luther who protested Catholicism.
Also Email;www.tfcministries.org .

Answer 6

Yes, but that era wasn't called "The Dark Ages" because religion ruled the world. It was called the Dark Ages because the people in power stifled science, trade, creativity, and basic human rights.

The problem wasn't religion per se, it was the fact that the prominent religions in the Western World at the time demanded dogmatic adherence.

Answer 7

Yes it is true, for Europe anyway. The Christians ruled Europe and it became the "Dark Ages" due to the fact that the Greek culture was lost (probably due to the Christians as well, not too sure) and when the Renaissance happened, there was a re flowering of the Classical (or Greeco-Roman culture) in Europe. Other continents had their own "Dark Ages" as well.

Answer 8

Not true.

It became the dark ages because the central authority of Rome declined and fell leaving a power vacuum.

People being people - there was a lot of conflict in filling that vacuum and the world became a less connected place.

The Church was but one power in the myriad of peoples, leaders, and political structures.

Answer 9

it didn't have much to do with religion except that religion basically ruled empires. the dark ages were mostly just after the fall of rome and europe kinda just fell into chaos and war, and the time of the black plague.

Answer 10

The dark ages refers to the European middle ages, roughly between the years 476-1000AD. Incidentally, that was the same time that the Catholic Church was at the height of its power.