i meant the take of "christianity caused the fall and the dark ages". your posts are basically what ive been reading about the fall
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Replying to @buellerevsky @LokiJulianus
mass conversion to Christianity was a consequence of ongoing collapse, certainly--everything after Trajan was downhill--but not a cause
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people's lives getting steadily worse over generations, birth rates nil among pagan elite, old gods must've seemed utterly irrelevant
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so you turn to the new religion which actually seems to explain & offer hope in the collapsing world around you
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as for the Dark Age--that was quite real, but a consequence of Islamic conquests cutting off Mediterranean trade routes
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Replying to @380kmh @LokiJulianus
it took centuries for Europe to reorient north, establish new trade networks, etc
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