Weren't the Dark Ages really just Christians getting what they always want?

Question

Is history repeating itself with the ultra right wing conservatives, the Islamic extremist ultra conservative Jews?

Why are so many on a race back to the dark ages?

Answer 1

Yes. They want to try to race back to the dark ages because they believe that life without real progress is the one true way to live. That's why many Christians encourage prayer instead of actual work.

Answer 2

It was more like kings getting what they always wanted. Greed caused the upper class to squander wealth to the point where peasants literally had nothing. They built large castles to store their wealth, but the king needed a lot done. So the peasants worked as serfs for the king, and people started carving up territory and claiming it. Since the upper class, basically the royalty, had no intention of changing anything they were stuck in the dark ages. No progress, no trade, little communication.

Religion was a strong part of the dark ages, but it was more of an after-the-fact control system, and it gave the people something to do and something to belong to.

Answer 3

The Dark Ages were a result of barbarian people migrating into Western and Southern Europe, and destroying a lot of what had been learnt by destroying the existing political order, and destruction of peace and economic activity.

It didn't greatly affect the Byzantine part of the Roman Empire - which maintained culture for another 1000 years; although sitting on their knowledge one might claim.

The many brutish tribes - ultimately themselves driven by the migration of the Huns from Mongolia, took centuries to become cultivated. In the UK you could say the last wave of brutes came in 1066, about 500 years of chaos taking place before that.

Answer 4

With the rise of the Crusades and Catholicism, which has always been involved in politics, yes. Vatican II was supposed to have brought the Catholic Church out of the Dark Ages.

But I wouldn't refer to the rise of Islamic Extremists and the Jews Conservatism as part of the Dark Ages.
They both have different agendas.

Answer 5

Nope. Read your history and this time understand it to gain a better influence. There is a theory that the Dark Ages was caused by a mini ice age. When this occurred food started becoming scarce. As a result people had to turn back to farming to bring in food to eat. Every civilization is based in the farmers' ability to produce food to allow specialist to work (basically everyone who isn't a farmer is a specialist). When farmers are no longer capable of farming enough food for the specialist the civilization collapses.

Answer 6

ability corrupts and absolute ability corrupts actually. Neither atheists no longer Christians are exempt form this. Atheists are actually not defenders of solid. Christian agencies do no longer prowl like hungry wolves. Did mom Theresa prowl? She aided the unfavorable loss of lifestyles of Calcutta. definite there are prowling (self proclaimed) Christians yet there are additionally prowling atheists and the prowling trolls on YA seem in maximum cases atheists. Atheists do no longer shelter rational and thinking portion of society. The church has continuously shelter rationality and faith. Atheists are actually not defenders of freedom. You seem to forget approximately that communists are atheists and deplore freedom. the place is the liberty and rationality in communist atheist international places. Atheists are happy to show the crusades and inquisitions as info that Christianity is evil and murderous. There would have been some thousand killed contained in the crusades and inquisition in finished. And it is permitting atheists to declare that the inquisition grow to be non secular. It wasn't. It grow to be in maximum cases in Spain by potential of the government. yet i will even supply you that one in case you settle for the thousands and thousands killed by potential of Russian communist and and the thousands and thousands killed by potential of chinese language communists Murders by potential of Atheists contained in the twentieth century on my own with some french revolution murders thrown in. united states of america Dates Murders Afghanistan 1978–1992 a million,750,000 Albania 1944–1985 a hundred,000 Angola 1975–2002 a hundred twenty five,000 Bulgaria 1944–1989 222,000 China/percent1923–2007 seventy six,702,000 Cuba 1959–1992 seventy 3,000 Czechoslovakia 1948–1968 sixty 5,000 Ethiopia 1974–1991 a million,343,610 France 1793–1794 40,000 Greece 1946–1949 20,000 Hungary 1948–1989 27,000 Kampuchea/Cambodia 1973–1991 2,627,000 Laos 1975–2007 ninety 3,000 Mongolia 1926–2007 a hundred,000 Mozambique 1975–1990 118,000 North Korea 1948–2007 3,163,000 Poland 1945–1948 a million,607,000 Romania 1948–1987 438,000 Spain (Republic) 1936–1939 102,000 united statesS.R. 1917–1987 sixty one,911,000 Vietnam 1945–2007 a million,670,000 Yugoslavia 1944–1980 a million,072,000

Answer 7

the period 600 ad - 1,000 ad is sometimes called 'the dark ages', and sometimes called 'the age of the saints'.

as you observe the main characteristics of the age were unfettered expansion of the christian faith, and no serious opposition to christian agendas on any front.

christian agendas included suppressing the majority of non-biblical learning (at the beginning of the age of the saints most educated people knew that the earth was round and hung in space, four hundred years later everyone knew it was a flat circle with jerusalem at its centre); and suppression of popular opinion or education.

but things are nowhere near as bad now as they were then. these days even fundies can read (the can't understand what they read - but at least they can read) and while the church can carry on abusing children for forty years or more eventually they get caught. (nobody ever got caught during the age of the saints).

in fact europe is probably freer from religious prejudice than it has ever been.

and where europe leads, america must eventually follow.

Answer 8

The dark ages had nothing to do with the gospel and Jesus Christ.
That was the doing of the corrupt superstitious roman church.
What happened after the reformation and the Bible being freely printed in the language of each European country?
-The age of expansion,literary and scientific breakthroughs,hygienic and medicinal improvements

Answer 9

No not at all. In fact, just the opposite is true. It was the rise of the Barbarians, that brought about the fall of the civilized world. The Dark Ages started with the fall of the Roman Empire, which by that time, was Christian. The armies that invaded, and there were a bunch of them, were not religiously motivated.
The Vandals, Huns, Goths, and Visigoths, among others, did not care about your God, they were Barbarians who just wanted your stuff. Instead, their motivations were driven by Greed, Envy, and Avarice. They were Pagans who cared only about Power, Wealth, Conquest, and Sexual Satisfaction. (Not unlike many secularists today).
During this time, it was the devout Christians, Muslims, and Jews who kept the candle of Civilization lit in the known world. They did this under extreme persecution, for hundreds of years, and for that they deserve our respect.

Answer 10

I believe they call it the Dark Ages, because there are no historical records for that period in European history.
Unlike the Crusades or the Inquisition. So Maybe it was actually a big party where everyone was to drunk on mead
to write anything down