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timpurches 's review for:
The Darkening Age
by Catherine Nixey
This book seems to have stirred up some controversy, with Nixey being accused of doing a hatchet job on early Christians. But her clearly stated aim at the start was to counter the view that there was some sort of relatively benign and peaceful transition from the previous pagan beliefs to a uniform Christianity, so her focus is not unreasonable. She’s certainly got plenty of historical evidence on her side too, as she presents a horrifying story of the destruction of great architecture, the burning of books, and the suppression of freethinking and the long ancient tradition of philosophy. Top that off with the violent, murderous elimination of any opposition to Christianity and a repressive attitude to sex (or anything else that might prove pleasurable), the later of which continues to this day, a grim picture of fanaticism and intolerance in the early church is painted. Those truly were the start of the Dark Ages.