Sup Forums BTFO, yet again!

Will they ever recover?

So what compelled European countries to work together and repel Mudslimes invaders?

The top picture should just be the world on fire.

McFarlin is actually retarded.

The church preserved Roman knowledge, maintained some political structure through the anarchy, and civilized the barbarians throughout the dark ages.

The only time the church "suppressed scientific advancement" was during the 1500-1700s when the dying political papacy felt threatened by movements that could delegitimize the small power he still had. Such efforts weren't even successful as secular funding in England, France, and Germany went full speed ahead while Spain and Italy stagnated into irrelevance.

>Byzantine Empire is a theocracy more rigid than anywhere in the West
>Dark Ages never occurs there

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Kek

Well played sir

So everything is exactly the same but cars travel in their air instead of on the streets? Also some of the buildings float? What's the big deal?

>islam is spawn of christianity

>belief in god hurts science

Even then, in the 1500-1700's the church stuff demanded scientists show proof of their work.

Spains begin Islam vs Jews, Europe don't go America, afroamericans don't exist, revolution industrial never happens.

Why is it that Europe had to discover and invent everything? what about the east?

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Also dna is code.

Kek is truth. You're all niggers.

>memegod
>truth

I listened to Hardcore History once.

Carlin's points that the Catholic Church basically had to run an international governing body for a few hundred years after Rome fell, so most advancement was stifled due to limited resources, but also kept alive through the Church. But likewise, also kept much information secret, and actively prevented the unwashed masses from reading anything, including the Bible.

the church locked away the knowledge, the renaissance was the rediscovery of roman works as the were taken from territory in Iberia after the muslims were kicked out

Kek BTFO's Jesus Christ every time.

Relax, it's all sand people religion shit. If it wasn't those it'd be something similar.

the people couldnt read anything because there was no way to mass produce literature until the invention of the printing press. it wasnt some catholic conspiracy to keep people ignorant, it was a sheer impossibility

It's a cartoon for kids.

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PRAISE KEK

The interest in preserving written documents the church had probably accelerated knowledge just on merit of less of it getting lost. Pure coincidence, but a good one.

Think of how often states fall, think of how long the church has been around, the scholarly leanings and stability of the church likely were positive in the advancement of knowledge. The church also served as a means to spread cultural teachings, especially to the illiterate masses, who the church later educated.

I suppose in the absence of the church the state would have stepped in to fill the role, but the state is not as stable as the church.

Blasphemous! Begone, pneuma to akatharton!

Science is also not 1000 years old, so the image in the OP doesn't make sense.

The "Christian dark ages" was perhaps the biggest meme of everything the new atheists talked about.

Just because the church persecuted gallieo and persecuted heresy doesn't mean the church was negative in regards to advancing knowledge, and it's not as if the state did not also oppress scientists. Really, particularly before the scientific theory was developed, they helped form a lasting scholarly culture a culture of science could spawn from.

I wouldn't argue these days the church is overly pro science

>muh "creation science"

but the values that led to the creation of a society that admires science first came from the Church.

Sup Forums is an pagan board so we agree.
christianity is cancer

Christianity was a good idea at first, as it arose as a response to the fanatic judaism that threw itself back into dark ages when the Maccabees murdered the enlightened jews at the time who were attempting to bring hellenism and rational philosophy back to the populace. This bloody plunging of the world back into dogma and barbarism is now celebrated worldwide as the miracle called "Hannukah". Perhaps the timeline would look quite different indeed if that had not occurred.

>100 years of scientific repression

but thats wrong you fucking faggot.

Without Christianity we would be behind where we are now. Christianity provided a stable backbone for society.

Oh hey its another DNC faggot on the same DNC pac board as Baldwin. You know, the one that pays people to cause riots.

YOU JUST POSTED THIS WITH THE SAME FUCKING NAME ON Sup Forums

>I can crossboard link because faggot

>Le shitty grammar faec

Uh no, it's for nihilistic adults with a wicked sense of humor, such as myself

The dark ages are meme, seriously

WITNESS

Im guessing bait but I'll bite. The church funded a lot of scientific research and pushed forward science when no one else could pay for it. Also in the non Christian world how can you blame Christians? Their tech was also advancing but in the end no one has flying cars.
Dark ages is a stupid meme