Open Letter to VyckRo

[australopithecus]

 

[Dogma's Demise]

No as proved by the fact that none of you is able to give up the myth whit the "enlightened Islam" and the "Christian Dark Ages"

"none of you"? :lol: So I don't count because?

 

[Aught3]

This whole topic seems backwards. Yes the intellectual centres of the world had to move around after the fall of the Roman Empire but only because big marauding armies kept destroying the centres of learning. Cordoba gets destroyed by the Spaniards, Byzantium by the Turks, Bagdad by the Mongols, Rome by the Germanics. Each time a cultural centre is ruined the scholars flee, taking their scrolls and knowledge, to find a new place to settle that is friendly to them. Different religions are sometimes the cause and sometimes the solution to this problem and sometimes they aren't involved at all. I don't really see the point of this argument.

Unless the point is that the ancient Greeks were awesome and Christian/Islamic cultural development sucked off their teat for a couple of centuries? 'Cause that I can totally get behind

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

Are we playing spot the non-sequitur? Because I just spotted one.

No as proved by the fact that none of you is able to give up the myth whit the "enlightened Islam" and the "Christian Dark Ages"

The myth of the dark ages was presented to me when I was in elementary school. I did not find out the Dark Age was a misnomer until late into my high school years with independent research done on my part. Thus, while I was a Christian I believed in the dark ages myth, but after becoming an atheist and researching history, I found out this was untrue. Therefore, I being an atheist and not accepting this myth disproves your claim that atheism is a religion.

Furthermore, here is a blog post by everyone's favorite historian and atheist theyounghistorian77, which goes into far better detail then I ever could exposing the dark ages as a myth.

This is the second time you have made the claim that atheists hold dogmatic beliefs, which I do not share, but did when I was a Christian. I wonder if this will be the time that you perhaps reevaluate your ideas of atheism and see that they are just wrong. Stop creating straw men to burn; no one is impressed.

 

[Dogma's Demise]

I'm starting to think that VyckRo simply needs an excuse to hate all atheists. How he could come to the same conclusion that all of us believe in a dark age caused by Christianity after reading my posts in this thread is beyond me.

Or, I guess he doesn't view me as a "true atheist" anymore, since the stereotypical atheist for him is far left / commie, hates Christianity, loves Islam and wants to destroy his own cultural model (and even that is a caricature).

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

You could cut the sexual tension in this thread with a knife.

 

[theyounghistorian77]

by everyone's favorite historian and atheist theyounghistorian77,.

erm?