Were the "Dark Ages" Really Dark?

[PeteWaldo]

Were the Middle Ages Dark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwrSE5DZrQ

Was there some darkness? Sure. Even Thomas Aquainas mentioned in that video, championed Roman Church murder of "apostates". Let alone the darkness in the history of the Roman Church murder of Christians.

Was there more darkness than there is in the world today, during this period of the murder of truth, and victory of the lie at every turn? It's hardly even arguable on a global basis, but I would suggest absolutely not arguable, in regard to the ever-descending darkness in the prophet John's "whole world":
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/muhammad_islam_in_bible_prophecy.htm#johns_whole_world



"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" ~ Voltaire
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/blasphemy_laws.htm
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” ~ Aristotle
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/islamophobia_or_christian_love.htm

But were the Middle Ages so dark the world was in need of the imperialistic conquest, slaughter, rape, pillage, plunder, ignorance and illiteracy of Muhammad's followers, from out of the backwards backwaters of the SW Arabian desert? Hardly.

Compare the sophistication of construction and appointments of Hagia Sophia, built in 537 AD (sans minarets and symbols of blasphemy inside, of course).....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia





.....with the crude unsymmetrical stone box built by the Quraish pagans in the late 5th century AD in Mecca, no two sides of which, amusingly, even measure the same length!



Mecca, a dry, dusty, desperate little nowhere backwater, that time and civilization had left behind. So if the Kaaba is any indication, it's safe to conclude that it wasn't architecture or even the ability to measure, that the Arabian pagans brought to Europe!
Let alone the witness of the detail of structures built 1500 years before the Quraish's kaaba.
http://www.historyofmecca.com/#temple

Oh yea, and location, location, location! The kaaba pictured here filled with urban floodwater, that is always laced with human sewage.

[PeteWaldo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_%28historiography%29

"The Dark Ages is a historical periodization used originally for the Middle Ages, which emphasizes the cultural and economic deterioration that supposedly occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.[1][2] The label employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the "darkness" of the period with earlier and later periods of "light".[3] The period is characterized by a relative scarcity of historical and other written records at least for some areas of Europe, rendering it obscure to historians. The term "Dark Age" derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 to a tumultuous period in the 10th and 11th centuries.[4]

Originally the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 13th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between extinguishing the "light of Rome" after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century.[3][5] This definition is still found in popular use,[1][2][6] but increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages has led to the label being restricted in application. Since the 20th century, it is frequently applied to the earlier part of the era, the Early Middle Ages (c. 5th–10th century).[7][8] However, many modern scholars who study the era tend to avoid the term altogether for its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate for any part of the Middle Ages.[9][10][11]"

The sophistication of the ancient structures in THE Holy Land of the prophets and patriarchs speak for themselves, but this even in 597 England:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin%27s_Church,_Canterbury