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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (57431)8/1/2004 8:42:27 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (2) of 793670
 
I suppose that some take that view.

Europe's original Dark Ages, back in the 7th and 8th century CE, were caused by the first, glorious days of Islam, when the conquests of Mohammed and his successors closed the Mediterranean Sea off from Europe.

It seems more likely that the Dark Ages were directly caused by the Christian Church after original Christianity was taken over and perverted by Rome. The hatred of learning and philosophy by the Church culminated in the burning of the world's greatest library at Alexandria and the closing of the last Platonic school in the sixth century.
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