Of course. Justification vs Falsification. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

Of course. Justification vs Falsification. The truth is somewhere in the middle. But given that the faith was so contributory to the fall of Rome, its inability to recover, the destruction of classical knowledge, and the vast church corruption of the dark ages, it’s kind of hard to maintain our fictional narrative about the virtue of the church.
Christianity was the ‘woke’ movement of the classical world. We managed to survive it. But it cost us more than a thousand years of pain.