The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World - Catherine Nixey Audiobook
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In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the ‘one true faith’.
The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation.
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This post has 29 comments with rating of 5/5
September 19th, 2020
So I guess this means the Christians were the first iteration of postmodern neomarxism, wiping out the eternal truths of the classical world with their phony ethic of love and forgiveness?
September 19th, 2020
“Religion Poisons Everything” Christopher Hitchens
September 19th, 2020
Thanks for the upload!
September 19th, 2020
Yes! Thanks for this great upload!
September 19th, 2020
People should cut Christianity some slack: everybody knows that educated people don’t go to church.
If you’re selling snake oil, the last thing you need is to be found out.
September 19th, 2020
Ah, yes: the ubiquitous snake oil of toxic political ideology & mindless extremism. Too true. The last century showed us (those sufficiently alert to pay attention, at any rate - those not drunk on destructive, doltish doctrines) that extremist ideology does indeed poison everything. But why would anyone wish to distract from the factual, historical record? Er…
The educated still know that the Church created the university, as a for inst.
Just as a prima facie critique, which inevitably contradicts the book’s thesis & erroneous assumptions: the Roman Empire was not wholly “generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds” - we have the record of persecutions to torpedo that one (read about Nero’s persecution; and the Diocletianic Persecution; also refer to the regimes & decrees of Emperors Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius).
In addition, the Church spent centuries painstakingly preserving the literary record of Classical antiquity, philosophy, history, literature, satire, science, art. These are the works I’ve been reading all my life, and for which I am immensely grateful. Moreover Christian philosophers & theologians actively engaged with the works of Classical philosophy; Plato & Aristotle writings pre-eminent among them. Otherwise, all of this would have been lost.
This was supposedly an “annihilation” was it? Joyfully preposterous.
September 19th, 2020
Quite a pea-brained and rather fishy premise. The whole Christian ethos is rooted in Greco-Roman classicism! This is the kind of radically revisionist ideology propagated by post-modern Marxists. Ugh!
September 19th, 2020
Saw a great BBC documentary about the Hittite origins of the Greek sky god Uranus. It mentioned Simeon Stylites, who sat on top of a pillar for 30 years looking out at the sacred mountain of the Hittites god which had inspired the Uranus. The pillar stood near an ancient pagan temple which has been destroyed and replaced by a Christian church.
I just thought this story was so far out… a guy sitting on a pillar for 30 years to keep a watchful eye on the ancient sky gods mountain.
September 19th, 2020
I kind of feel like this whole business of feeling the need to “judge” Christianity is a bit absurd. Surely Christianity is the source of much that is good and much that is bad. How could it be otherwise? And of course it’s easy for us from our modern perspective to see much that is ridiculous and awful about the past. The West seems to be particularly caught up with this sort of self-flagellation and righteous moral pronouncements on the past. They often forget that the lens through which these pronouncements are made was hard fought, and largely the product of Western thought and institutions itself.
September 19th, 2020
@ehead - Your approach is too measured, balanced & rational - you’re almost sure to be attacked by the ideological eejits!
Truly educated & open-minded analyses are quasi-endangered species.
Every human institution reflects our flaws. They’re baked in, ab initio.
Our age will be harshly judged by posterity - for we know not what, in many cases. The background, unquestioned assumptions, which we take entirely for granted, are likely to be revised & denounced.
An informed, historical perspective gives us this awareness.
In Christian cultures, the ethical prism through which we view the world - theist or sceptic - is grounded in Judeo-Christian values. The Natural Law & justice are defined & shaped by Christian morality. In Muslim cultures, it’s Islam, etc.
All of this has to be ignored in order for the hysterical attack model to work. In addition to the university & the Church, they must close out of their ‘minds’ the doctrine of human rights, the hospital, the preservation of literacy & Classical texts, the spread of learning, the development of law - due process in the trial, the presumption of innocence, art, architecture, philosophy, economics, international law, literature, political & legal theory, charity, four renaissances, etc. etc.
September 20th, 2020
The Marxist movement in the west is against any standards and judgement (school grades, teachers punishing students, police, laws, parental discipline), removing the judgement of Christianity is part of that.
September 20th, 2020
History and Non Fiction. Thanks
September 20th, 2020
Followed by the Capitalist destruction of the Christian world.
Capitalism is the ideology of a cancer.
No true Christian can be a Capitalist, because no man can serve 2 masters.
It’s obvious to me which one most have chosen to worship.
September 20th, 2020
Capitalism cannot be avoided, In the most basic bartering system or the most complex economy. It is as much a part of being human as breathing. People will always pursue their own self interest (hunger motivates). People will bargain and trade with each other to satisfy their needs. The only way to get rid of capitalism is by force, violent life threatening force. Systems that seek to eliminate capitalism are unjust, corrupt, dictatorial, violent, and murderous.
September 20th, 2020
Thanks for the post and sharing.
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September 20th, 2020
And no doubt islam is the religion of peace
September 21st, 2020
I found the intro to be perplexing, especially this part: “The little-known - and deeply shocking - story blah blah”..
I was under the impression that this books specified subject matter would be basic common knowledge. Knowledge though, which a certain sort of person represses mentally.
Christianity the Magpie religion. The double standard.
The attempt at moral structure doomed to fail..
We can only try.. and when it does not work, then systemize obfuscation and deny the failure.
>In Christian cultures, the ethical prism through which we view the world - theist or sceptic - is grounded in Judeo-Christian values. The Natural Law & justice are defined & shaped by Christian morality. — ever changing.
Values and Morality sure.. but only when it suits said.
The whole subject is disgusting.
I am behind the moral creed but making a religion of a suggestive code of behavior.. Well the result seems more like having taken a dump on said ethics, morality, code of conduct. Christianity: The 2000+year long con.
meh why am I even writing this.
September 21st, 2020
Glad you did, Monty, cos your points are quite incisive, largely steering clear of the standard poop-slinging.
You’re absolutely right that fully achieving the Christian ideal is wholly impossible. As is the elimination of the self & identity in Buddhism (along with attaining all the other religious ideals); also reaching polit/soc/econ Utopia in the secular realm; or even, if you’re keen on legal philosophy, gaining justice. Justice is an abstract (beautiful!) metaphysical, we can just about grasp it in our minds, but it can never be achieved. We get law instead.
So the point clearly is the attempt. We define ourselves in the attempt. Ethical hypocrisy we all condemn. But we are merely human. Every institution we create reflects our flawed nature.
In terms of “Magpie religion” - spot on. And all philosophies draw from, and are influenced by, others.
In any event, I think the thesis was how Christianity “destroyed” the Classical world (loved that narrative years ago - in spite of being aware of the historical “lacunae”). It’s by no means a new angle, but has been endlessly, and successfully, countered; which is the substance of what I was saying: the reason I have Cicero, Thucydides, Aristotle, Virgil, Homer, Juvenal, Plutarch & all the other lads on the shelf here, as you no doubt have on your own.
Great metaphysical systems like Christianity do indeed, as Iris Murdoch said, “change the world” - but often imperceptibly, so the good they do can oft be expediently “interred with their bones.” (All) people choose their self-serving narrative - another point you hit the bullseye on.
September 21st, 2020
Thank you for this!
September 23rd, 2020
for more on capitalism replacing religion I recommend The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher.
“Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.”
Eugene ends up at the Romantics and the journey is an enjoyable one.
Thanks for this Guest. I’d read reviews but didn’t want to spend time reading it. Now I can pop it into my ears. Wonderful.
September 23rd, 2020
McCarraher’s book sounds intriguing, Johnny Cab; if he were to proceed with the burning thread of Romanticism, he would be able to explore how it fed the fires of racial nationalism (just to mix incendiary metaphors).
September 23rd, 2020
The modern religion is one of Stuff. Many occidental moderns worship & revere Stuff-ness; that’s where their dubious dasein is to be discovered. Evanescence, disposability, ephemerality - capitalism is merely a means towards this vacuous end.
September 27th, 2020
I am pretty surprised to find the “post-modern neomarxism” troll in here, let alone several.
September 28th, 2020
“I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do and to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor condition and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.”
–Pope Paul III, 1576
“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and … know nothing but the word of God.”
— Martin Luther
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter our civil affairs, our government would soon be destroyed. Let it once enter our common schools, they would be destroyed.”
–Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Weiss vs. District Board, March 18, 1890
“One day a man was asked if there were any true atheists. ‘Do you think,’ he replied, ‘there are any true Christians?’”
- Denis Diderot, Pensées Philosophiques, 1746
October 4th, 2020
This site is overrun with Neo-Trotskyite, most likely Jewish (or Shabbos Goy) trolls.
April 8th, 2023
Spoiler alert: 99% of ancient learning was lost due to the fall of the Roman Empire and the fragility of the writing material of papyrus - nothing having to do with religious extremism. Awful book.
May 23rd, 2023
Christian martyrdom alive and well in the comments. lol
September 4th, 2023
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Cor 13.11
This book is for those who admire childish thinking. It is vacuous, inane and vapid, fit only for the trash can. No right thinking person can dignify it as meaningful in any sense.
September 19th, 2025
This is a distinguished volume, its merits amplified by the curious spectacle of numerous christian apologists producing long-winded passages and lavish citations that ultimately amount to vacuity.
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