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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey
3.97 AVERAGE
263 reviews for:
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey
3.97 AVERAGE
Great book! There were so many times I made a side note to go and look something up at a later time. Also refreshing to hear a different side to history other than what was taught in public school.
I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting with this.
Good points: Nixey's style is very accessible and easy to read. Even as a born and bred atheist, it's good to be reminded to look at these accounts from the other side.
I'm still shocked that Nixey really thinks that no one has heard of this obliteration of learning and (relative) tolerance? I really struggle that in the current days, when, as she herself points out, we've seen in real time the destructive tendencies of fanatical, authoritarian theology, people really think Christianity was different in its early days.
Completely unrelated to the text, but the quality of the edition is terrible. The pages are badly bound and rippled. For shame, Pan Macmillan.
Good points: Nixey's style is very accessible and easy to read. Even as a born and bred atheist, it's good to be reminded to look at these accounts from the other side.
I'm still shocked that Nixey really thinks that no one has heard of this obliteration of learning and (relative) tolerance? I really struggle that in the current days, when, as she herself points out, we've seen in real time the destructive tendencies of fanatical, authoritarian theology, people really think Christianity was different in its early days.
Completely unrelated to the text, but the quality of the edition is terrible. The pages are badly bound and rippled. For shame, Pan Macmillan.
Tivesse eu lido este livro há alguns anos, teria ficado chocado com o que aqui se escreve sobre a vasta destruição dos pagãos pelos cristãos. Contudo, nada disto pode ser apresentado desta forma leve, desde logo porque a destruição apresentada ocorreu ao longo de séculos, sendo aqui apresentada como uma sucessão narrativa de causas e efeitos imediatos, o que retira alguma credibilidade ao relato. Os clássicos têm dois mil anos, as evidências que temos do que aconteceu são fragmentos de fragmentos. Não podemos a partir dos mesmos, pegar em momentos avulso no tempo, escolhidos pela sua intensidade, e criar um fio condutor que explica tudo com uma única dimensão ou causalidade. Claro que num pequeno livro, tal como num documentário, sobre assuntos complexos, não se pode entrar pelo detalhe dos múltiplos pontos-de-vista, arriscando a fragmentar o discurso, perdendo o foco e a atenção do leitor/espectador. Mas a simplificação do complexo, por mais ressalvas de imparcialidade que se façam, tende demasiadas vezes a criar viéses marcados pelo que se escolhe apresentar e não apresentar.
Ler o resto do texto com links:
https://virtual-illusion.blogspot.com/2022/10/do-escurecimento-provocado-pelo.html
Ler o resto do texto com links:
https://virtual-illusion.blogspot.com/2022/10/do-escurecimento-provocado-pelo.html
Another prime example of why journalists should not write history books
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Where there is terror, there is salvation.
A ceaseless march of historical grief. The bodies of civilizations long past writhing under the unrelenting terror of Christianity. Nixey’s writing takes you through the boneyards of philosophers and the rubble of temples. It’s inglorious and devastating.
I was raised as a fundamentalist Christian but became a self identified pagan soon-after. I never really drank the kool-aid spiritually but the indoctrination did work well enough on me that much of this shocked me. History is written by the victors and you would never see Christian historians describing their cruel and brutal takeover of the west as anything but a triumph. It’s heartbreaking realizing how much of history has been disfigured by such an over-zealous faith.
A difficult but important read. We deserve to know how much history was lost at the hands of the spiteful and how their spiritual fascism is alive and well today.
A ceaseless march of historical grief. The bodies of civilizations long past writhing under the unrelenting terror of Christianity. Nixey’s writing takes you through the boneyards of philosophers and the rubble of temples. It’s inglorious and devastating.
I was raised as a fundamentalist Christian but became a self identified pagan soon-after. I never really drank the kool-aid spiritually but the indoctrination did work well enough on me that much of this shocked me. History is written by the victors and you would never see Christian historians describing their cruel and brutal takeover of the west as anything but a triumph. It’s heartbreaking realizing how much of history has been disfigured by such an over-zealous faith.
A difficult but important read. We deserve to know how much history was lost at the hands of the spiteful and how their spiritual fascism is alive and well today.