RE: What do you think about Youtube atheist?
July 13, 2014 at 12:03 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2014 at 12:07 am by MJ the Skeptical.)
(July 12, 2014 at 8:31 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 12, 2014 at 8:17 pm)Godslayer Wrote: Nice revisionist history there bud. Almost as funny as your "the dumbest believers likely don't even use the internet" gem of a statement.
The dumbest theists don't use the internet. That's too advanced for them.
I see you fail at history just the same as you fail at logic. The Christian Church regained power (and then gained ever more power) when it was propped up to counter the threat of Islam in the 8th century CE.
What exactly caused the Dark ages, oh, just politics, right...
You're going to sit there and say religion wasn't powerful during this time? like I said, revisionist history.
(July 12, 2014 at 9:01 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 12, 2014 at 8:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Poor Polecat....not feeling the love for his fairy tales.
Actually, it's about those atheists not feeling the love for academia. Poor America really. You guys are a generation behind and it's not because of Christians, it's because you Yanks are lazy.
Funny how you say that Atheists need Academia but provide no evidence that atheists are causing harm.
Guess you're just a sensationalist.
(July 12, 2014 at 8:55 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 12, 2014 at 8:50 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Um and just when do you think the middle ages happened Polaris? The usual dates are from about the 400s to the 1600. So if Christianity dominated Europe from the 700s onwards, then it would be mostly Christian right? --- Though actually it began dominating those parts of Europe outside Rome and the Middle East between 200 and 400 CE depending in where in Europe you're talking about and only lost the Middle East to Islam in the 700s.
The Christian Church faltered when the Roman Empire fell. When the Holy Roman Empire was instituted, it regained its clout. It's a faith that barely survives unless it is the state religion of an empire (or an entity closely resembling an empire). The barbarians tended to stick to their own religions (there were a few of them who were Christian) and it was they who ruled Europe after the fall of the the Roman Empire....they gradually converted over the course of the next couple centuries until 732 CE when their world changed.
The definition of the Dark Ages that commingles the term with the Middle Ages is almost as outdated as breakthroughs from the Middle Ages itself and is based upon piss poor historical recounting from the Italians.
Yeah, the Christian church "fell" right lol, but they were still the most dominate (or second most dominant) religion in the world during that time and ended up having a lot of followers when the dark/middle ages was over...hmmm...Seems like your argument is crumbling under it's own bullshit.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.