[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Joel C. Salomon]

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