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What if christianity never existed ?

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What if christianity never existed ?
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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 7:18 pm (This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 7:18 pm by bennyboy.)
If Christianity never existed, we'd all be pagans. We'd put pine trees in our houses to scare away demons in the middle of Winter, we'd have egg and rabbit fertility symbols sometime in Spring, and we'd be railing against dangerous ideas like evolution.


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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 7:29 pm (This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 7:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Unlikely, with regards to the latter.  The last gasp of paganism was julian pan-hellenism.  Knowledge, learning, a nascent sense of scientific inquiry, these were all positively valued.

Our common ideas of what pagans did or thought is handed down to us by christians, bofc.....not known for their honesty - particularly in describing groups they were actively persecuting. They were described as superstitious bumpkins...ironic, since that's how the pagans described the christians when they showed up.
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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 7:29 pm
(August 29, 2016 at 7:18 pm)bennyboy Wrote: If Christianity never existed, we'd all be pagans.  We'd put pine trees in our houses to scare away demons in the middle of Winter, we'd have egg and rabbit fertility symbols sometime in Spring, and we'd be railing against dangerous ideas like evolution.


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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 7:32 pm
I imagine the world would be a lot different.
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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 7:32 pm
(August 29, 2016 at 7:18 pm)bennyboy Wrote: If Christianity never existed, we'd all be pagans.  We'd put pine trees in our houses to scare away demons in the middle of Winter, we'd have egg and rabbit fertility symbols sometime in Spring, and we'd be railing against dangerous ideas like evolution.


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BTW Bennyboy, that was a shit thing to do setting up Stimbo like that, gaslighting the situation when you KNEW he'd suffered loss.
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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 8:33 pm
(August 29, 2016 at 7:29 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(August 29, 2016 at 7:18 pm)bennyboy Wrote: If Christianity never existed, we'd all be pagans.  We'd put pine trees in our houses to scare away demons in the middle of Winter, we'd have egg and rabbit fertility symbols sometime in Spring, and we'd be railing against dangerous ideas like evolution.


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Dude, that's funny cuz. . . wtf does Kim Jong-eun have to do with ANY of this? I'm ROFL right now. Big Grin
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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 8:38 pm (This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 8:39 pm by abaris.)
(August 29, 2016 at 8:33 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Dude, that's funny cuz. . . wtf does Kim Jong-eun have to do with ANY of this? I'm ROFL right now. Big Grin

Well, don't be. The Kims constructed a regular religion around their persons. Using all kinds of Korean mythology.
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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 8:40 pm
I know, dude. I live in Korea.
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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 8:41 pm
(August 29, 2016 at 8:40 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I know, dude.  I live in Korea.

Out of curiosity, are you actually a citizen or just a permanent resident?
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RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 9:02 pm
(August 29, 2016 at 8:41 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:
(August 29, 2016 at 8:40 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I know, dude.  I live in Korea.

Out of curiosity, are you actually a citizen or just a permanent resident?

No, and no.  But I've been here for 15 years now, so I guess I'm a long-term visitor. Tongue
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