What do you think about Youtube atheist?

[Polaris]

The definition of the Dark Ages that commingles the term with the Middle Ages is almost as outdated as breakthroughs from the Middle Ages itself and is based upon piss poor historical recounting from the Italians.

Hardly, the Middle Ages and the Dark Ages used to be synonymous. Professors fond of the age resolutely stuck to Middle Ages until virtually no one said Dark Ages any more. There is a group that labels the early Middle Ages as the Dark Ages, but that usually runs from about 400 to about 1000 CE.

The point regardless of what you call the era is that innovation ground to an almost halt until the 1500s.

By the way "Dark" in this context originally referred to the paucity of written records, not the times.

It's because the Italians weren't the best historians and didn't know how to do research.

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.

Let me see....corruption, over-extension of resources, and barbarian invasions. Stuff that's taught to elementary school students. And every time you open your retard mouth, you harm other atheists. I love how you're so fucking stupid, you don't see that you're the problem. Atheists such as yourself (at least in the Europeanized nations) do more harm to atheists than anything else (you're just like those Christian Fundamentalists). As a Christian, we root for you guys because it makes our conversion attempts so much easier.

Islam was the dominant religion during the Dark Ages. Christianity was in third place when the various pagan religions are seen as more unified instead of viewing them one by one.