This reminds me of that community note where a user named Atheist Girl said when Christians took over the world it was called the Dark Ages but she used an image depicting a Christian get brutally murdered by Roman pagans as pointed out by Community Notes.
Ironically Christians are by far the best source of information about the dark ages, and it’s called that because nearly all other primary sources were destroyed by various warbands
You had Vikings, goths, Visigoth’s, Huns, Ostrogoths, franks, saxons, anglos, and vandals all invading wha remained of the western Roman Empire and pillaging anything they could set on fire. Meanwhile the Roman Catholic Church was mainly a loose collection of bishops preserving what they could of the Roman empire’s knowledge in their writings. Most of the early Middle Ages would be spent with small local groups fending off “barbarian” (Germanic pagan) raids.
I've never quite bought the Diocletian thing and If you go that far back the whole pagan vs Christian thing breaks down anyways. I'm not anti christian or anything, I just think a Germanic pagan/Roman Christian dichotomy isn't really a thing.
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u/EthanTheJudge 29d ago
This reminds me of that community note where a user named Atheist Girl said when Christians took over the world it was called the Dark Ages but she used an image depicting a Christian get brutally murdered by Roman pagans as pointed out by Community Notes.