The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
00:00
The Dark Ages
The term dark ages is really contentious to day, because it's seen as a kind of sort of unpleasant slur on the world of christianity. In its early centuries, christian was what's kind of called an illicit religion. It was not one of the approved e s of the roman empire. The reason that christianity came into conflict with the roman powers was not so much because they feared christ but for something which was closer to treachery.
Play episode from 11:13
Transcript
