February 14, 2012 in Opinion, Letters

Bible led to Dark Ages

 

I’d like to respond to Gavin Dluehosh’s Jan. 29 letter, “Know Bible in context,” where he disputes Tim Wolfe’s Jan. 20 letter claiming that the Bible was written by men to frighten and control the uneducated population to conform to their way of thinking.

If anyone knows the real history of the early church, they would side with Wolfe. Writers those days had a wealth of information on ancient history’s saviors to start their new religion, and once Christianity was established, they had to annihilate all evidence of its mythic nature to make it their own. And they did it with a vengeance. It was burn, baby, burn.

By the Third Century, almost all knowledge of Greece had disappeared. By the Fifth, the destruction was so complete, Archbishop Chrysostom could boast of it thus; “Every trace of the old philosophy and literature of the ancient world has vanished from the face of the Earth.” Enter the Dark Ages, a curious effect for “The Light of the World.” Education was frowned upon for centuries to keep the populace in line before the Renaissance.

Gary Garoutte

Newport, Wash.

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  • ChefGus/ John Olsen on February 14 at 6:40 a.m.

    Mathematics, art, history, language and freedom of Religion did however remain in the areas of the world that were Muslim… until the Inquisition over ran those parts of the world. Spain (particularly Toledo) was a safe comfortable place to live for all cultures. The Ottoman Empire rose out of the ashes of the Dark Ages , long before the Renaissance. Gus.

  • cdspokesreader on February 14 at 12:08 p.m.

    Ah…. those who do not study history are destined to repeat it.

  • SMARTGUY on February 14 at 1:02 p.m.

    The pope recently stated, that the reason the church is becoming obsolete, and attendance is down in the United States, is too much education. It seems to be easier to convince uneducated people to believe, and they don’t ask all those pesky questions. Just believe what your told , and keep those donations coming.

  • Dazzeetrader11 on February 15 at 1:11 a.m.

    And all those executions from the Muslims too John.
    Bible…at least the New testament brings us mercy, handouts to the poor, unclothed and unfed.

    Greatest story ever told. Follow it and follow those rules……all good things.

  • ChefGus/ John Olsen on February 15 at 6:43 a.m.

    DZ.. the five “Pillars of Islam” which is the basis for the entire religion do not say much about “executions” or jihad… my guess is that the Crusades against the Infidels perpetrated by the Roman Church in the 11th and 12th Century got the ball rolling ( or heads).. The best part of most religions is not very well practiced, and often ignored… The “Old Testament” is the basis for most of the killing and pillaging … Read the Red “Jesus” words in the Gospels… and you can have a good life… thanks j

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