slave2six
Substitious
You aren't much of an historian, are you?The Dark Ages were not caused by Christianity. Which scholars are teaching that today? Civilization collapsed in the West, on account of the barbarian influx among other reasons. If the Christian Church did anything in this period, it was to preserve of the fallen Rome what it could. The Christian East maintained until the fall of Constantinople in the 15th century.
What was the ruling political force from 325-the early 1400s?
What political force was behind the Crusades that pillaged cities throughout the Mediterranean like Jerusalem and Constantinople and destroyed or pillaged its wealth?
What advances in any of the sciences were made after the Christian Church took power and before the non-Christian writings were again recovered?
What sciences were lost after the Christian Church took power?
What did the Christian church do to every new civilization that it encountered in Europe, the Americas and the South Pacific?
The only thing that the Christian church preserved in all this time was its power. They did this by destroying or assimilating native religions, emphasizing the fear of Hell and Purgatory, and introducing any new superstition that would advance their power (indulgences anyone?).
If what you say is true then they should have welcomed with rapture the new discoveries of the Renaissance. They did not. Not by a long shot.
Thanks for playing.