RE: What if the Romans hadn't killed Jesus?
April 16, 2014 at 7:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2014 at 7:20 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 16, 2014 at 6:27 pm)Cato Wrote: I'm indifferent to Pilate and his gang, but would like to go back in time and kick Constantine in the nuts.
Yeah.
The actual crucifixion of Yeshua would be inconsequential if Constantine didn't make Christianity the state religion.
But would it really have made a difference?
As someone else stated, he would have picked another religion as the state religion. Probably Mithra worship.
Christians would be Zoroastrians and worship Mithra. We'd all still be atheists.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
