This bit of history is politically incorrect

I was looking for something on the web, which I remembered reading about many years ago.  After the fall of Rome, learning became frowned upon.  The barbarians destroyed as much of the culture as they found, and that would have been lost forever, but for the monks.  The monks preserved ancient learning and passed it along to future generations.  If they hadn't done this, it would have been lost forever.

I came across this, which is quite surprising as it dovetails with what I've written here about the Death Cult.

CAUSES FOR THE FALL OF ROME

Edward Gibbon in his classic The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire gives some basic reasons for the fall of Rome: (1) undermining of the sanctity of the home; (2) the rapid increase in divorce; (3) the development of huge armaments and the neglect of the enemy within; (4) the moral degeneracy of the whole society — sexual perversion and homosexuality; and (5) the declension of religious vitality, with formalism supplanting faith and impotence replacing power.

Other reasons are as follows: (1) political chaos and distrust of political leaders; (2) a breakdown of justice; (3) a failure to maintain law and order; (4) increasing taxes; and (5) a mass movement from the rural areas to the cities.

Very familiar, yes?

The part about monks comes later.  However, with respect to the Death Cult, you can be assured that they would never allow the parts about sexual perversion and homosexuality to be included in history lessons.  No siree, Bob.

A modern day version of the monks might be considered harmless, but who knows?  Since the Death Cult is so pervasive, there may not be any place that a monk could go.  Even the barbarians left the monks alone, but the Death Cult won't.

Another slip into the Dark Ages could be permanent this time.