The “Dark Ages” was a derogatory term invented by the so-called “Enlightenment thinkers” who wanted to contrast the centuries before them (which were actually an Age of Faith and scholarship) with their own societally destructive and anti-religious ideas. As a result, people in modern times have been conditioned to think of these times as ones of only ignorance and superstition. If one automatically employs this term in regard to those times, he is showing an ignorance of history and culture.
