Quote Originally Posted by Euphoric
First, to disprove your ignorance on the dark ages.

The Middle Ages is a stretch of a thousand years called mediæval and feudal, words that are like the word dinosaur??they are used pejoratively. They mean backward, barbaric, primitive or, at the least, old fashioned??the antithesis of our clever and sophisticated modern times. The reason is that in that thousand years, crime, vice, violence, drunkenness, disease, mortality, brutality, exploitation and injustice were immeasurably worse than before or after. Yet, they are the time when the church was at its most powerful, when cathedrals were built, bishops lived in palaces and many of the male population were churchmen??monks, priests, bishops, friars, templars, hospitallers, priors, lay brothers.

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We are living in an age when ignorant Christian mobs are once again trying to replace science and knowledge with religious rituals. If we don??t learn from history, they will again throw us into another 1,000-year period of ??The Dark Ages?.
Firstly, this is riddled with inaccuracies. I don't mean to make this personal so I won't, but I would also appreciate it if you showed a little respect.

Secondly, I know my history. Whether you want to believe that or not isn't really important but it's something I've LONG been enthralled with, so my "ignorance" of the dark ages comment really doesn't have any ground on your part. Also, thanks for "disproving" my ignorance

You're also WRONG in saying that "in that thousand years, crime, vice, violence, drunkenness, disease, mortality, brutality, exploitation and injustice were immeasurably worse than before or after" and that it was that time that the church had the most power. The dark age is called the dark age because "mean were in the dark", and because of the lack of any recorded history from that era. It also has to do with the fact that a great empire once ruled Europe, and now that empire has fallen and the "great european whole" is now scattered. BTW the Church has remained just as strong and influencial, and was NOT at it's most powerful from 400ad to 1000ad which is what most people would concider the "dark ages"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages < I'd also appreciate links to back up your arguments if you expect me to take them seriously

If we don??t learn from history, they will again throw us into another 1,000-year period of ??The Dark Ages?.

These are wise words. If there is anything to learn from history, it's that we as a species have gone NOwhere in the way we think, and in the way we act. People have this arogant idea that the human race has improved. Our methods and technology are further developed sure, but we're no "smarter" or any better morally for sure. Just look at the pyramid of giza. They couldn't build a pyramid today that is so mathematically and scientifically perfect WITHOUT computers.

btw, if you're bored: http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/pyramid.html
it's quite intresting.