It's worth noting that in fact Christianity did do a fair amount to inhibit information. For one thing the church tended to destroy works that would be deemed heretical or dangerous hence a lot of the ocmbined knowledge gained from the Roman Empire was put to the torch. It was only the fact that Muslims maintained the information and when Europeans recaptured Moorish held Spain our academic bloodline to the Greeks was reinstated.
Things likt the modern hospital system and the like were secular creations, if you are going to credit religion for things rather than the people themselves then you're effectively saying that the basis for philosophy, mathematics, etc. belong to paganism. Not to mention the fact that gunpowder, a fairly stable society, etc. were created by the Chinese whose main focus would likely be taoism or buddhism.
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/ 12 years ago
The dark ages were caused by the constant attack on Rome by Pagan Germanic tribes and corruption in the highest levels of government. It has nothing to do with Christianity. In fact it was the monastic system that preserved most of the art and knowledge through the politically tumultuous dark ages filled with wars and only united by the Roman Catholic Church.
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/ 14 years ago
Right... lets forget about the fact that things like the modern hospital system, licensing for doctors, the elevator, napalm, the pendentive dome, the modern concepts of civil law, the modern university system, chemistry, ... et. al. came from the Christian Eastern Roman Empire, an nations whose primary focus was religion.
May I ask what the hell China and the Mayans were doing? Neither of them where Christian; where are their advanced space age technologies? Let's also forget about the fact that once Europe was thoroughly Christianized (1300 CE), Europe began to jump ahead of the rest of the world in technological development.
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/ 11 years ago
China and the Mayans also had to deal with problems of other cultures essentially destroying them through disease, colonization, etc. Also, the issue is somewhat less about the faith itself and more the fact that many of the religious order destroyed books and records. This is part of what caused the loss of a lot of the knowledge we had, in fact had it not been for the recapture of Moorish held Spain we may have completely lost the records of the greeks.
It's worth noting that in fact Christianity did do a fair amount to inhibit information. For one thing the church tended to destroy works that would be deemed heretical or dangerous hence a lot of the ocmbined knowledge gained from the Roman Empire was put to the torch. It was only the fact that Muslims maintained the information and when Europeans recaptured Moorish held Spain our academic bloodline to the Greeks was reinstated.
Things likt the modern hospital system and the like were secular creations, if you are going to credit religion for things rather than the people themselves then you're effectively saying that the basis for philosophy, mathematics, etc. belong to paganism. Not to mention the fact that gunpowder, a fairly stable society, etc. were created by the Chinese whose main focus would likely be taoism or buddhism.
The dark ages were caused by the constant attack on Rome by Pagan Germanic tribes and corruption in the highest levels of government. It has nothing to do with Christianity. In fact it was the monastic system that preserved most of the art and knowledge through the politically tumultuous dark ages filled with wars and only united by the Roman Catholic Church.
Right... lets forget about the fact that things like the modern hospital system, licensing for doctors, the elevator, napalm, the pendentive dome, the modern concepts of civil law, the modern university system, chemistry, ... et. al. came from the Christian Eastern Roman Empire, an nations whose primary focus was religion.
May I ask what the hell China and the Mayans were doing? Neither of them where Christian; where are their advanced space age technologies? Let's also forget about the fact that once Europe was thoroughly Christianized (1300 CE), Europe began to jump ahead of the rest of the world in technological development.
China and the Mayans also had to deal with problems of other cultures essentially destroying them through disease, colonization, etc. Also, the issue is somewhat less about the faith itself and more the fact that many of the religious order destroyed books and records. This is part of what caused the loss of a lot of the knowledge we had, in fact had it not been for the recapture of Moorish held Spain we may have completely lost the records of the greeks.
Napalm... what an amazing achievement.
Because Christianity is what caused the collapse of the Roman Empire...
Wow, what an ahistorical view... chalk it up to public schools.
And I wont be around to see it :(