mcdaddy Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 If Xianity had never been invented? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Valk0010 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneTarus Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p5jnqEyUs4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted June 27, 2012 Super Moderator Share Posted June 27, 2012 It would be a worldwide Islamic state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdaddy Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 It would be a worldwide Islamic state. Could you have Islam without Jesus? Edit: I gues you COULD. Question is, WOULD you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted June 27, 2012 Super Moderator Share Posted June 27, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdaddy Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeCoastie Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Margee Posted June 27, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 27, 2012 I'm sure we might have evolved much faster....... and been much smarter......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GardenerGal Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 If religion had been humanity the world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy. --- R Ingersoll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser01 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdaddy Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 I still think that Islam wouldnt exist without Xianity. Obviously I *could* be wrong tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antix Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdaddy Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryper Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paine Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Cancer CURED using stem cells... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paine Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paine Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vigile Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vigile Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryper Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 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. well in the ensuing 1500 years things might've gotten better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryper Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 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... Did I just fall into a movie where the two antagonists suddenly find out they actually like each other and then things get....kind fuzzy and involves a goat and hagraven? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornagainathiest Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Hey McD! The premature death of Christianity is covered in William H. McNeill's essay, "Infectious Alternatives". http://en.wikipedia....hat_If?_(essays) He pretty much concludes that in 701 B.C., had the huge army of invading Assyrians not succumbed to a virulent illness, then they would have wiped out the tiny kingdom of Judah and it's capital, Jerusalem. Judaism would have been eliminated and it's daughter religions, Christianity and Islam would never have had a Monotheistic template to build upon. After all, it was the one God of the Old Testament that both Jesus and Mohammed built their 'new' faiths upon. Therefore, the ancient Middle East might have stayed polytheistic, with the Jewish experiment in Monotheism dying stillborn. If that sounds unlikely, then consider that the Egyptian pharoah Akhenaten tried to introduce a One-and-Only-One-God system of belief, back around 1334-1336 B.C. That didn't succeed either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten Imho, Christianity was never guaranteed to flourish (despite the propaganda the apologists try to foist on us) and could easily have died stillborn, back in 701 B.C.So what would the world have looked like if that'd happened? Sorry, but I've got to say it... God knows! (Not!) Thanks, BAA. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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