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#1 mcdaddy

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 05:18 PM

If Xianity had never been invented?
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 05:19 PM

I am not very imaginative but way better, and way more peaceful. I bet you would have alot more people, doing things like say studying science or being doctor's or being philosophers. I am mean imagine how many good philosophers and historians have been lost to the hackjob known as apologetics.

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 05:26 PM


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Posted 26 June 2012 - 07:43 PM

It would be a worldwide Islamic state.



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Posted 26 June 2012 - 07:45 PM

It would be a worldwide Islamic state.


Could you have Islam without Jesus?

Edit: I gues you COULD.

Question is, WOULD you?

Edited by mcdaddy, 26 June 2012 - 07:46 PM.

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 07:55 PM


It would be a worldwide Islamic state.


Could you have Islam without Jesus?

Edit: I gues you COULD.

Question is, WOULD you?

You asked about Christianity, not Jesus.



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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:06 PM



It would be a worldwide Islamic state.


Could you have Islam without Jesus?

Edit: I gues you COULD.

Question is, WOULD you?

You asked about Christianity, not Jesus.


Well played, sir, well played.
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:23 PM

It would be a worldwide Islamic state.

That brings up a good issue. Could the Pagan Europeans fight off Islam in war and cultural encroachment or would they have been screwed without Christianity to unite them. They probably would have united and fought once they realize the Muslims would take away their bacon.
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:29 PM

I'm sure we might have evolved much faster....... and been much smarter.........

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 09:40 PM

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 10:40 PM

It would be a worldwide Islamic state.


This makes alot of sense, if Christianity hadn't of existed as a counter force against Islam and vis-versa we could be Islamic today unless something took christianity place.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:57 AM

I still think that Islam wouldnt exist without Xianity. Obviously I *could* be wrong tho.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 08:21 AM

If you are a southerner or rurral midwesterner, you could go out to a bar or liquor store and not have to look around to make sure no church members see you.



Seriously though: maybe we would be more advanced since the church in the middle ages stifled some intellictual thought, especially with biology and astronomy.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 08:58 AM

If you are a southerner or rurral midwesterner, you could go out to a bar or liquor store and not have to look around to make sure no church members see you.



Seriously though: maybe we would be more advanced since the church in the middle ages stifled some intellictual thought, especially with biology and astronomy.


LOL! yeah, MAYBE we would be more advanced. If by "maybe", you mean, 10000000% sure. haha
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 09:18 AM

If Xianity had never been invented?


Christianity at the time was just the latest iteration of religion. A better question would be what if instead of focusing on religion back in days of Egypt and Babylon. If instead of saying god did it, they focused on scientific questioning.

The world would be a very different place.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 08:17 PM

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 08:22 PM


If Xianity had never been invented?


Christianity at the time was just the latest iteration of religion. A better question would be what if instead of focusing on religion back in days of Egypt and Babylon. If instead of saying god did it, they focused on scientific questioning.

The world would be a very different place.


YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT stryper! That is very well said.

Christianity was just the latest version of sun worship...so sadly, it isn't Christards...so a better question might be if SHEEPLE and their stupid RELIGION(S!) hadn't been invented...

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 09:34 PM

What would the world look like of the biggest selling hardback, second ONLY to the BIBLE, ATLAS SHRUGGED, replaced the BIble?

If everyone was a freethinking, productive INDIVIDUAL and the welfare state that enslaves whole classes of people never existed?

Imagine that world, John.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 10:29 PM

I am not very imaginative but way better, and way more peaceful. I bet you would have alot more people, doing things like say studying science or being doctor's or being philosophers. I am mean imagine how many good philosophers and historians have been lost to the hackjob known as apologetics.


Why? Are more people in Asia doing these things?
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 10:33 PM

If instead of saying god did it, they focused on scientific questioning.

The world would be a very different place.


Yup, we would have split the atom in the first century and blown ourselves to smithereens in between the 3rd and 4th centuries in a dispute over depleting fossil fuels. :P
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