RE: Religion in the Middle Ages
April 28, 2015 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2015 at 11:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-Most- of the reason we even make assumptions as to how "bad" it was, relative to christian rule, is that early christians -tell us- that it was just fuckin horrible before they came along.
They would say that...though, wouldn't they. Written history was pretty much taken up by the christian apparatus when that ball was dropped. We ought to know better, by now, than to buy anything they write down in their books. The descriptions of these pagan others and the terrible histories of the areas all magically coalescing into a place of peace and prosperity under priests were utter horseshit. Christendom was plainly detrimental, people got their shit together -in spite of that-...though, like people do (had themselves a green revolution - keep that in mind the next time you hear people arguing over whether or not we even -need- one..this amusingly, explaining a bit about medeival resurgence of pagan traditions/folklore/superstition that didn't seem to be about the faiths they were drawn from as origin so much as monks descriptions -of them-....christians or christianized folks making shit up on what little they had). Long story short, the dark ages (nor the period of time directly before) weren't so bad......except for all that nasty christianity shit that was going around.....
They would say that...though, wouldn't they. Written history was pretty much taken up by the christian apparatus when that ball was dropped. We ought to know better, by now, than to buy anything they write down in their books. The descriptions of these pagan others and the terrible histories of the areas all magically coalescing into a place of peace and prosperity under priests were utter horseshit. Christendom was plainly detrimental, people got their shit together -in spite of that-...though, like people do (had themselves a green revolution - keep that in mind the next time you hear people arguing over whether or not we even -need- one..this amusingly, explaining a bit about medeival resurgence of pagan traditions/folklore/superstition that didn't seem to be about the faiths they were drawn from as origin so much as monks descriptions -of them-....christians or christianized folks making shit up on what little they had). Long story short, the dark ages (nor the period of time directly before) weren't so bad......except for all that nasty christianity shit that was going around.....
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