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.