>>113203624>The absence of "oppressive" religion doesn't equate to scientific breakthrough.You're denying the antecedent, dipshit.
>>113203715No True Scotsman? Really? As a red herring on top of that? Ultimately criticisms relating Christianity causing the Dark Age are entirely about Church leadership. Nobody said the Bible said "Fuck them Greeks."
Esoteric Christianity isn't a fucking part of the discussion. The church were dickholes. It held society back. It's not like it was all bad though; they also preserved a bunch of shit too over the years. Plenty of books only still exist because at one point a monk copied them. They also were responsible for shit like the development and spread of certain farming practices.