a more spiritual Christianity would have emerged, most probably circumventing the Historical Dark Ages. Christianity under Gnostic leaders such as Heracleon, Ptolemy, Florinus, Axionicus and Theodotus ...

While Christianity was the foundation of European ... and the supposedly crappy eras like the Dark Ages.

Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses the exuberant youth of the Christian church, shows that the Dark Ages knew glory. When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses ...