Jarrett Billingsley wrote: > Indeed. The European Dark Ages were dominated by views that humans > were inherently flawed; that everyone was born a sinner; that you were > predestined to go to either heaven or hell and there was nothing you > could do to change that.
I believe that bit of doctrine about predestination is Calvinist, not Roman Catholic, and so would not have been common in the Second (i.e., the European) Dark Age. —Joel Salomon
