Christians were responsible for the Dark Ages. At first historians were saying, well maybe not. Now I've noticed most are saying, well historically they were. It's pretty obvious.
Yup basicly destroyed themselves and also Barbarians/Muslims(copycats) .................end of the Roman(west/east) empire.............and in with the catholics/muslims(rome) and vikings(eu)............ Nature/Planet/Climate? Mzzls
Well, as Christians were dominant they are technically responsible, but that does not necessarily imply Christianity as such is. Also, the DA was not half as bad as made to be in the collective (false) memory through media. That is a narrative of the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras that used classical antiquity as a positive and middle age as a negative projection screen of their own ideals, not because it is historically accurate. During that period a lot of later development already started, we were getting actually out of the post roman empire chaos.
Not to me. What historians are you talking about? Gibbon? How exactly did Christianity cause the Dark Ages? Most mainstream historians avoid the uses of "Dark Ages' as misleading. First of all, the eastern Byzantine part of the Dark Ages didn't experience much of a Dark Age, and was thoroughly Orthodox Christian. Then, too, the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire, a long process over several centuries, was due to numerous complex factors: corruption, economic decline, plagues, over-expansion, and invasions by barbarian tribes, maybe even lead pipes and drinking vessels. Fall of the Western Roman Empire The Fall of the Roman Empire: What Caused It? Causes of fall of Roman Empire « IMPERIUM ROMANUM The "Dark Ages" began with the fall of the Roman Empire, often dated to the 5thcentury, after Alaric, a Visogoth chief, sacked Rome in 410 c.e.,and Odoacer, a Circi chief overthrew the boy Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476 c.e.. Both were Arian Christian barbarians. Does that make "the Christians" responsible? The Church provided what little stability and continuity there was during the Dark (or early Middle) Ages. Alvin J. Schmidt (2004) How Christianity Changed the World. The most famous blamer of Christianity was the 18th century historian Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a classic, but also the source of the questionable notion that Christianity was a major contributor, by receiving resources that might otherwise have gone to the State and pagan temples, and by preaching otherworldly concerns and doctrines of peace and chastity that undermined Rome's macho pagan militaristic fiber. Over a century later, Nietzsche picked up on Gibbon's thesis, with his "superman" notion and the idea Christianity was a "slave morality". But Rostovtzeff (The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire) blamed it on class warfare, while J.B. Bury, (A History of the Roman Empire ) argued that no single cause can be blamed. So who are those recent historians you allude to as supporting your claim?
