Comments by "Skeletor Likes potatoes" (@skeletorlikespotatoes7846) on "A New Dark Age Is Upon Us" video.

The idea that humans were backward, and idiotic in Europe is absolutely false. Some of the greatest architecture, inventions, and poetry came out of these centuries
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With that being said, the world was limited, more dangerous, and it was hard to organize unified thinking. The enlightenment changed that, and yet also simply evolved it. The three branches that came out of it were Hobbisien, Locke, and Rousseau. Rousseau is the modern governments attempt to return peope to tribalism....which is idealized. Hobbes simply took for granted humanitys general greed and violence (two which he eas correct) however the lockian ideal...was that in some organized well structured homogenous societies....true decency could grow
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While I agree with most of your takes, the idea that there was a "dark age" is entirely inflated. The Church did not oppose science, it sanctioned it, and donated to it
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@covertcounsellor6797 Galileo wasn't prosecuted over his scientific beliefs. he was prosecuted over his poor interpretation of the Bible, in which ironically the Church had approached in a more scientific sense. It's hard to comprehend perhaps, but just like today if you notice....people are ostracized in the scientific world for their unorthodox beliefs....the scientific community at the time simply couldn't go by Galileo's claims because the evidence was weak at the time. Galileo (I love his work and he was tremendous) honestly made a pretty weak argument if you read his journals. He simply didn't have the tech (first telescopes were iffy) to conclude what he claimed. But again he wasn't prosecuted specifically for that, he was prosecuted because he took a rather strange view of the Bible.
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@covertcounsellor6797 but unlike modern science the church actually mentioned in the trial that they would take "serious consideration of this new theory pending further evidence". Instead of ostracizing his view which is what happens today.
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@covertcounsellor6797 Giordano Bruno, again was condemned for his strange religious takes, not his claim of heliocentrism. Of course I'm not condoning his burning at the stake. Nor am I saying there weren't absolutely corrupt, evil church members, but burning someone at the stake wasn't particularly common even for pretty outrageous acts of heresy. And there's hardly any examples of people being burned or killed for scientific beliefs. The church (at least the Catholic one) took a symbolic interpretation of the Bible. It never claimed everything was literal, (the whole 6000 year old earth was never a belief of the church). Last thing is especially for heliocentrism, despite the fact that the church was quite accommodating about it, if you put yourself in the shoes of a thinkers at the time, the evidence was against you. Absence of Stellar parallex did not seem to support a moving earth. It's very easy to act like they were stupid, but really you wouldn't have known.....it was the development of the telescope to a high degree as well as the several supernova observed that helped change this ultimately. Yes, it's true that the Greeks had already considered this take also, but the evidence still wasn't there to suggest it.
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 @BjornAndreasBull-Hansen may I ask you a question?
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