(August 29, 2016 at 11:20 am)Torin Wrote: Hello guys and girls
I want to ask your opinion on the following question: ,,What if christianity never existed?" please give arguments for your opinion.
I believe that even if islam and other religions existed, i think that humanity would be much more advanced in science and in other areas.The scientific discoveries and new ideas would't been surppressed, the term ,,The Dark ages" would never have existed.I don't want to offend christian folk ,but your religion in the past done some bad stuff, and it isn't your fault, but please be open minded, and try to answer this question sincerely.
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The big question is then, what's there instead of Christianity?
You can't say that new ideas and scientific discoveries wouldn't have been suppressed because you don't know what is taking the place of Christianity.
I'd say your proposal of what would happen is VERY unlikely.
What are the chances that people would suddenly think "Ok well there's no Christianity around so let's follow reason and evidence, treat women as equals to men, and all sexualities equal."
Thing's could have been better, or worse.
Countries which have a history of being heavily Christian don't seem to be held back much in terms of science, separation of church and state, equality and things like this.
This is relative to other religions like say Islam.
Not to say that one belief is superior to the other, but Christianity has a separate history to Islam. For whatever reason, there's probably many multifaceted reasons, the countries that used to be burning witches and killing people who came up with new ideas in the name of Christianity are now the most progressive countries in the world. ( My argument for this would be to reference all the countries in the world where gay marriage is legal, the best countries for sexual equality, countries with the best standard of living, scientific advancement and so on.)
And the countries that used to be Islamic and advanced in science are now not so advanced in science and not so relatively progressive.
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