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Originally Posted by fusnik11
The idea that the world was void of light, and knowledge and advancement, during 120 A.D. to 1820 A.D. is a false idea perpetuated by mormon myth. It isn't grounded in reality, and isn't a prevailing thought among mormonism. Certain works paint the world entirely in unbelief, disarray, and certain levels of regression. But, the idea that the world was void of authority from God, aka, the priesthood, is in essence the true 'great apostasy.'
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It certainly isn't prevailing thought as far as I know. To the contrary, I find the fact that Islam's great golden age conincded rather nicely with the utter collapse of learning or progress in western eutope, again using a small example, to be indirectly faith promoting. With all due respect to you, SU, I think you tend to take the worse case example and argue against it ignoring that it is neither widespread nor correct.