An Atheist defends the Middle Ages - Required Reading

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Very interesting article and quite refreshing to see such an opinion from an atheist, who generally make arguments solely based on emotion as opposed to fact. I see a bright future(Christian - wise) for the author since he considers himself a secular humanist - given that there is really no such thing anymore (because all innocent life is not valued).
 
I’ve highlighted this because this comment is neither accurate nor charitable.

I think you will find that most people who take time to argue over religion do so from an emotional perspective.
 
kmuestwin said:
I’ve highlighted this because this comment is neither accurate nor charitable.

I think you will find that most people who take time to argue over religion do so from an emotional perspective.
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While I don’t have a lot of posts on this forum I have been a regular contributor to other forums for almost 10 years and have battled it out with atheists in two different languages regarding Catholicism and science and I can unequivocally say that atheists are illogical and emotional when it comes to arguments, so from my 20,000 plus post perspective this has overwhelmingly been the case. If that is indeed not been the case on this forum then I believe that is positive and no doubt due to the rigid standards of posting. Also, I would consider it a favor if you could direct me to other forums where you have found atheists to be otherwise.
 
From wiki:
“…The decline, seen in retrospect, occurred over a period of four centuries; while some modern historians question the significance of the date,[4]”

Usually the atheistic position is that the overall corruption (???) was the cause of the fall; they give example starting with Caligula, Nero etc and they suggest that Christianity was also the cause of corruption.

My personal opinion is that the wars with the invading people were to expensive and they got nothing from them, only recovering some stolen goods sometimes
 
The book seems refreshingly factual. Readers might appreciate how to better understand how Catholicism has shaped history by getting such sound books as:

How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, by Thomas E Woods, Jr., Ph.D., Regnery Publishing, 2005.

The Church and the Market, Lexington Books, 2005, by the same author.

The Victory of Reason, by Rodney Stark, Random House, 2005.

Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics, Chafuen, Alejandro Antonio (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003).

Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition, Fr Anthony G Percy, Lexington Books, 2010.
 
It is amazing to ,many how people who are convinced that science will be humanities savior is ignorant about its history. Does the average scientist think that people lacked brains from the fifth - 16 centuries AD. Should we all be glad that Newton came and gave everyone there brains back.

Another good video. and a good book The savior of science
 
I read Savior of Science. Just kind of " brushes the edges. " I attended a lecture given by Lackey. Didn’t understand a word of it. He writes the same way. Very deep and doen’t seem to follow through. I felt like he was leaving something unsaid that he could have said.

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