In What Is Good? British historical and philosophical populariser and atheist A.C. Grayling, Reader in Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, complained about the influence exerted by religion before, during and after the Middle Ages, claiming that, following six or seven centuries from the height of classical Athens to the last flourishing of the Antonine dynasty in Imperial Rome, in the succeeding period, “more than twice as long, the Western world – for most of that …
