/lit/ - Literature

>>18080890
>inb4 a fucking blog

How did Christianity cause the first ever dark age?

Why did Christianity put the roman empire into a dark dark age where the only successful people were dark skinned?
Christianity destroyed all the viaducts and sewage systems of the Roman empire somehow. How does that work?

Someone posted this. Haven’t looked into it myself

>Nixey is a funny, lively, readable guide through this dark world of religious oppression. She wisely insists at the start of her book that this account of cultural violence should not be read as an attack on those who are “impelled by their Christian faith to do many, many good things”. It is instead a reminder that “monotheism” (or, one could say, religion in general and Christianity in particular) can be used for “terrible ends”. The book is also an essential reminder, in the age of Brexit and Donald Trump, that intolerance, ignorance and hostility to cultural diversity are sadly nothing new.

I've been considering picking this one up. How is it? Has anyone here read it?

>Nixey is a funny, lively, readable guide through this dark world of religious oppression. She wisely insists at the start of her book that this account of cultural violence should not be read as an attack on those who are “impelled by their Christian faith to do many, many good things”. It is instead a reminder that “monotheism” (or, one could say, religion in general and Christianity in particular) can be used for “terrible ends”. The book is also an essential reminder, in the age of Brexit and Donald Trump, that intolerance, ignorance and hostility to cultural diversity are sadly nothing new.

I've been considering picking this one up. How is it? Has anyone here read it?

>>15741827
Any book on early Christianity. Be it history books or source material by the early saints.

>>15355328
Start with the gals

I just finished pic related and it was pretty eye opening. I would like to read more about the subject, can anyone recommend some books for me? Modern historian/archaeology books or the writings by the people of that time.

The book I just finished talked a lot about how the most popular Christian saints pushed greatly for the destruction of art, architecture and books(so it wasn't just random mobs), such as Augustine, Basil, Chrysostom, Jerome etc etc. I'd like to read specifically what they wrote on it too, i'm guessing much of it was homilies so if someone could point me to some the most important of those on the subject, I would be really grateful.

Has anyone read A Darkening Age? It's about how the Christians destroyed most of Roman culture.

>Nixey is a funny, lively, readable guide through this dark world of religious oppression. She wisely insists at the start of her book that this account of cultural violence should not be read as an attack on those who are “impelled by their Christian faith to do many, many good things”. It is instead a reminder that “monotheism” (or, one could say, religion in general and Christianity in particular) can be used for “terrible ends”. The book is also an essential reminder, in the age of Brexit and Donald Trump, that intolerance, ignorance and hostility to cultural diversity are sadly nothing new.