It doesn't work that way.. and Dark Ages last centuries, perhaps half a millenium of collapse of technology, population and rampant disease, famine, pestilence.. and a restoration of tribalism with its pagan blood cults and incessant violence and warfare. And as with the collapse of the Greco Roman Civilization, the spark of learning and order of a civilized society was kept alive Catholic monastaries in farflung places.
Not an example that backs up your statement too well, in fact it refutes it: The term "Greek love" has come to signify the original English use of "Platonic love", that of a male-male sexual attraction made respectable by referring to antiquity. Greece became a reference point by homosexual men of a specific class and education. The first use of that phrase dates back to 1636 with "Platonic Lovers" by Sir William Davenant.
EMLS 8.1 (May, 2002]: 4.1-36 "New Sects of Love"
The latter phrase was derived from the writings of Marsilio Ficino who coined the terms amor Socraticus. The concept of Platonic love formulated by Ficino referred exclusively to the affection between men: "Before Ficino's reformulation of the philosophy Platonic love was almost exclusively associated with homosexuality, a connection that appears to have prohibited proper scholarly investigation prior to the publication of Ficino's
Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love. Its homosexual and pederastic orientation led many theologians to deny or delete concepts of Platonic love from their larger discussions of Platonism. Jill Kraye points out several examples of this, such as the Camaldulensian monk Ambrogio Traversari who deleted the homosexual love poems attributed to Plato from his Latin version of Diogenes Laertius'
Lives of the Philosophers in 1433, and George of Trebizond whose comparison of Aristotle and Plato in 1458 attempted to save Christendom from the immoral, and homosexual doctrines of Platonic love. Even Cardinal Bessarion's
In calumniatorem Platonis, which defends Plato's attachment to young men as chaste, nevertheless asserts that the lustful poems were not actually by Plato. Ficino, on the other hand, accepts the notion of Platonic love, but interprets its homosexual aspect allegorically, asserting that the divinely inspired amatory fury of Platonic love involved a chaste relationship between men. Pico della Mirandola attributed this to the fact that Platonic love was directed at the soul or intellect, which was much more beautiful in men than women. But while Ficino, Pico and Bessarion "expunged any taint of carnal homosexuality from Platonic love, they did not question its homoerotic nature, nor its relegation of heterosexual love to an inferior status on the grounds that love between the sexes resulted in physical procreation, whereas love between men led to spiritual perfection." "
EMLS 8.1 (May, 2002]: 4.1-36 "New Sects of Love"
The subject of Eros, and the traditions of male contact were repeated in many of the Roman sculptures described by Johann Winckelmann in a three volume set of books. Homosexual activity in ancient civilizations is common. Many civilizations offer few sexual options in a rigid class system. Greek men stayed within their own class, if not within their own gender. Marriage was expected but offered little more than relations to produce offspring, as the two genders were separated in public and traditionally did not even take meals together. Women were secluded in Ancient Greece. The natural step was to turn to who was available and accepting. Ancient sexuality was not approached as a gender specific attraction. Homosexuality, is also a modern term. It has only been in use for just 130 years. The concept of strict sexual separation of the genders is also a relatively new idea. Not until strict church doctrine taught this ideology did it become a moral issue. Up until that time there simply was little to no standard against it.
A true homosexual subculture did not exist in ancient Greece. Male same-sex relationships of the kind portrayed by the "Greek love" ideal were increasingly disallowed within the Judaeo-Christian traditions of Western society, though there was more tolerance within Asian cultures until recent times. The earliest reference to the modern ideology is from that of Marsilio Ficino after the fall of the Byzantine Empire. In his comments of Plato's work in 1469, Ficino describes "amor socraticus", however it must be said that Ficino, influenced by the church doctrine attempted to water down its meaning and concept and concluded that the male love was allegorical. In his commentary to the Symposium, Ficino carefully separates the act of sodomy, which he condemned, and lauded Socratic love as the highest form of friendship. He believed that men could use each other's beauty and friendship to discover the greatest good, that is, God. Ficino Christianised the theory of love presented by Socrates.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marsilio Ficino
Homosexuality in legitimate and celebrated fashions is a symbol and accelerant of a process of degeneration. But it is certainly not the only factor. It reflects a loss of moral structure on which our entire socio-economic framework is constructed.
We see the results in the asecendent jungle of the predatory economics that is leading us into a Great Depression unlike any we have seen before, at least in the last 1000 years. And the loss of any sense of value in human life, as we see in the 50 million abortions in North America over the last 40 years, and the 'sacrifice' of human embryos to medical research, and the growing euthenasia cults.
It's all well advanced. There is a gathering storm that will hit us with avengance, within our life times and beyond.
Without citations to back up your claims, 50 million abortions being a medically impossible number to achieve based on the number of medical practitioners in NA over the last 40 years for instance, nothing of what you are saying can be regarded as credible. Even if one were to consider that claim with any logical view then you are, in essense, claiming that Canada (having a 10% equivalent of the US's population) would now have five million more citizens than in actuality whilst the US would have forty-five million more citizens! Given the average rate of growth for both countries over the past hundred years, a large amount of the increase being both countries high intake of immigrants, your numbers do not compute.
I've already mentioned them, but maybe you don't think rampant disease, anonymous promiscuity, drug and alcohol dependence, depression, suicide, loneliness, dramatic decrease in life expectancy are sufficiently persuasive enough. Those are just some of the material effects.. i won't even touch on the spiritual costs.
The illusion of the happy homosexual couple, living a life of domestic bliss and monogamy is a myth. The reality is a life of carnal consumption, a nightmarish existence of fantasy ridden and unquenchable appetites, and increasing isolation for the aging homosexual.
Again anecdotal, no citations. And how do you come by your such deep insight into the life of a homosexual? And your claims of all the ills and evils a homosexual experiences and society incurs? According to you...
And, supposing for the moment that your claims were factual (which I do not), what would be your remedy to eradicate homosexuality?
