Bringing Down the King

[reverendjeremiah]

Now thats a good answer - worthy of a rebuttal.

Well, I admittedly just tossed out the first set of options that I could, ignoring so many other problems of just getting there. It isnt exhaustive.

My only thought is on your second point. It's still possible that killing Jesus off could possibly change the outcome of christianity. If you managed to kill him before he was able to travel abroad and spread his disease than the masses would have never heard his name and thus would not be able to write the stories and the scrolls and what have you.

Hmmm, good point. I suppose if I went back and killed David Koresh before he gathered his followers then his followers would not still be worshipping him. Lets also be honest that his followers WANTED to believe in something far fetched. Because of this, there surely would have been a power vaccuum and they would have went to some type of other extreme belief.

I would say that we could set Jesus down and educate him on the real world, so that he could spread good knowledge, but would that change anything? Or would that make him less attractive. I think that "vaccuum" (for lack of a better word) would demand something in place of rational discussion in this situation.

If you are right, and what you say can happen, then I would predict that Zoroastrianism would have made greater strides than it had in our current time line. Then again, it is very difficult to predict anything on this discussion as it is so specialized and lacking in good markers of reality to find a good answer. My prediction would be some other mystery religion would have gained popularity instead, which I would bet Zoroastrianism would have a good chance. Regardless, Christianity as we know it would be destroyed in that situation, but only if you killed Jesus before he became popular, which would mean you would have to kill him in the cradle, if the story of the wise men is actual history..that is.