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, 21:45, June 28, 2023→Why do most Christian Histories of Evangelization skip some 1000-1500 years?
:The name, "Dark Ages" can be misleading, implying something sinister and oppressive occurred. What it really means is that there isn't a lot of valid historical writings to go on covering a very long passage of time (largely due to widespread illiteracy); and those writings tend to be connected with the church. So in the so-called "Enlightened" Era, atheist bigots tended to just dismiss those earlier writings as being from a "dark" and sinister time. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a chance'']]</sup> 17:40, June 28, 2023 (EDT)
:The name, "Dark Ages" can be misleading, implying something sinister and oppressive occurred. What it really means is that there isn't a lot of valid historical writings to go on covering a very long passage of time (largely due to widespread illiteracy); and those writings tend to be connected with the church. So in the so-called "Enlightened" Era, atheist bigots tended to just dismiss those earlier writings as being from a "dark" and sinister time. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a chance'']]</sup> 17:40, June 28, 2023 (EDT)
Pls see the Evangelization of England: "As soon as they entered the dwelling-place assigned to them, they began to imitate the Apostolic manner of life in the primitive Church; applying themselves to constant prayer, watchings, and fastings; preaching the Word of life to as many as they could; despising all worldly things, as in nowise concerning them; receiving only their necessary food from those they taught; living themselves in all respects conformably to what they taught, and being always ready to suffer any adversity, and even to die for that truth which they preached. In brief, some believed and were baptized, admiring the simplicity of their blameless life, and the sweetness of their heavenly doctrine. There was on the east side of the city, a church dedicated of old to the honour of St. Martin, built whilst the Romans were still in the island, wherein the queen, who, as has been said before, was a Christian, was wont to pray. In this they also first began to come together, to chant the Psalms, to pray, to celebrate Mass, to preach, and to baptize, till when the king had been converted to the faith, they obtained greater liberty to preach everywhere and build or repair churches.
When he, among the rest, believed and was baptized, attracted by the pure life of these holy men and their gracious promises, the truth of which they established by many miracles, greater numbers began daily to flock together to hear the Word, and, forsaking their heathen rites, to have fellowship, through faith, in the unity of Christ's Holy Church. It is told that the king, while he rejoiced at their conversion and their faith, yet compelled none to embrace Christianity, but only showed more affection to the believers, as to his fellow citizens in the kingdom of Heaven. For he had learned from those who had instructed him and guided him to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence suited to their degree in his metropolis of Canterbury, with such possessions of divers sorts as were necessary for them." [Ch. 26]" [From Ecclesiastical History of the English People].
Does it sound like "Dark Ages" to you? Prayer, Fasting, Healing, Miracles, Evangelism and Christianity's Astonishing Growth, and Ultimate Triumph, in England, (with other European Countries to follow soon thereafter). This happened in the 6th and 7th Centuries. I think, after the French Revolution, Atheists and Agnostics engaged in a Propaganda War against Christendom, rewriting History, and falsely claiming "Ages of Light" and Christ's Glory were "Dark Ages". It's their own false agnostic and atheistic revolutions (like the Commie Revolution, which Solzhenitsyn heavily criticized as being founded on Militant Atheism as its Dominant Ideology - which also caused some 60 MN Deaths) that led to "Dark Ages".
James Hannam wrote: "The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the Earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching. But it gained currency in the 19th century, thanks to inaccurate histories such as John William Draper's History of the conflict between Religion and Science (1874) and Andrew Dickson White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896). '''Atheists and agnostics championed the conflict thesis for their own purposes, but historical research gradually demonstrated that Draper and White had propagated more fantasy than fact in their efforts to prove that science and religion are locked in eternal conflict."''' https://www.patheos.com/resources/additional-resources/2010/05/science-versus-christianity [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]<sup>[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]</sup> 17:45, June 28, 2023 (EDT)