Hold onto your hats, buckle up that seat belt, hang on for a wild ride. This dull intellect got an eternity message from the somewhere and something called Google. No way you say? Just hang on and let me try to explain. To the four people that follow my blog, you know that the Bible is front and center. The Bible must be understood as a struggle within history between spirituality and religion. The question needs to be asked, is the history of the next 2000 years after the biblical record any different? Can we not interpret all of history in this spirituality religion context?
Through all
of my life, I had assumed that the historians are best qualified to comment on
the turnings in our history. I had never
thought to ask any alternative questions but a term began buzzing in my
bonnet. The message I got was “the Dark
Ages”, repeating for days, “the Dark Ages”.
Finally, I decided to ask Google, why did Europe experience the
catastrophic 1000 years of human tragedy called by some “the Dark Ages”
(approximately 500 to 1500 A.D.)? Surely
google would know, after all, google knows.
The only
sensible answer that google could offer was that the Dark Ages were caused by
the fall of Rome and the fracturing of political leadership in Europe. This opinion was first touted by English
historian Edward Gibbon in his six volume History of the Rise and Fall of the
roman Empire published in 1776. This
opinion is as old as our country, also birthed 1776.
Could it be
that the fall of Rome was only one side of the coin? The other side was that the fate of Rome left
a political vacuum in Europe that sucked the Roman Church into filling. Whatever spirituality remained in the Church at
this time was increasingly buried beneath tons of political intrigue and wars. The human spiritual
balance was way out of whack and darkness unmercifully ensued. This would seem to be a fuller explanation.
Anyway, I
would like to have this opinion taken to task by a real historian.
G.Goslaw
Landers, CA
The voter po
