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01-20-2005, 08:59 PM
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The early Catholic Church required celibacy of all it's adherents. They figured out very quickly that they were dooming themselves to being a minor cult. They encouraged their followers to breed like rabbits, for the good of the church, and brought us the Dark Ages and the Inquisition ...
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01-21-2005, 12:49 PM
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01-21-2005, 07:01 PM
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Recent scholarship questions the existence of the "Dark Ages." Pick out your random dates for the beginning and end of the Dark Ages and then look at the great artists and thinkers who did their thing inside those dates. The empire withered but its institutions devolved to local control. We could only hope to enter a new dark age.
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