(December 28, 2015 at 1:24 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:(December 28, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Nestor Wrote: Um, no. The dark ages were not "caused" by "religion."
What were they caused by? It seems to me like he hit the nail on the head on that one.
They were caused by the dissolution of the Roman Empire. The Church stepped into the power vacuum, but it did not create it. The Visigoths did.