Rethinking the Myth of the Dark Ages

The entire concept of the Dark Ages is actually just a smear campaign started by Renaissance

haters. They wanted to look enlightened, so they painted the medieval era

as a time of zero creativity where religion crushed reason. But the reality

is way messier. In the West, monks were actually using intense logic to analyze faith.

Meanwhile, in the Islamic world, philosophers like Al-Farabi flipped the script entirely.

He argued that philosophy was actually the master, and religion was just a symbolic

tool to help the masses behave. Far from being a time of mediocrity, this era literally

invented the university system we still use today.