Like everyone saidmore barbaric, less advanced, etc etcPeople's lives back in the early days were MUCH harder too, so having that greater power/faith and thinking life would be better when you died, probably carried a lot of them forward. Especially during the Dark Ages.
Quote from: Luciana on October 22, 2015, 03:03:26 AMLike everyone saidmore barbaric, less advanced, etc etcPeople's lives back in the early days were MUCH harder too, so having that greater power/faith and thinking life would be better when you died, probably carried a lot of them forward. Especially during the Dark Ages.>Implying there is no afterlife
We'd all be Joe Biden
What basis are you guys using that Christianity was a beneficial force throughout history? Just curious, because a lot of this just seems to be conjecture and speculation.
The common man needed something like religion to dictate his limited understanding of morality.
Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on October 22, 2015, 10:42:34 AMProbably we'd be praying to the Roman pantheon. It was Constatine's conversion to Christianity that spread the religion, not anything inherent in Christianity. So, if he hadn't, then the original Roman religion would be the predominant one. The driving factor was Rome.IIRC pagan Romans weren't into the whole forced conversion thing like Christians and Muslims.
Probably we'd be praying to the Roman pantheon. It was Constatine's conversion to Christianity that spread the religion, not anything inherent in Christianity. So, if he hadn't, then the original Roman religion would be the predominant one. The driving factor was Rome.
It would also be pretty different because we wouldn't have had the crusades.Maybe we wouldn't have left the dark ages until a lot later.Maybe the dark ages never started then.
Quote from: Endork on October 22, 2015, 09:13:11 AMIt would also be pretty different because we wouldn't have had the crusades.Maybe we wouldn't have left the dark ages until a lot later.Maybe the dark ages never started then.Dark Ages were because of the fall of Rome, not Christianity (primarily, in any case).