Maybe I just read too much into things while I'm reading, but this is how I felt after reading your post:
James, many civilizations based on human sacrifice, animal worship, and almost any other belief system you can imagine have lasted for several thousand years at least in ancient times. Many of them added at least as much to inventions, art, and basic human knowledge and development as any Christian society ever has.
Read: Past pagan religions including ones with cannabilism contributed as much to humanity as Christianity
When you take into consideration the Inquistion, during which estimates ranging from several hundred thousand to nine million women were burned at the stake as the Christians swept across pagan Europe, and the Christian anti-Semitism which was a large factor in how the Holocaust was allowed to happen, an argument could certainly be made that civilizations do not prosper or survive any better under Christianity than under any other belief system, and may leave quite a few victims in their wake as well.
Read: And Christianity did all these nasty things
Conclusion: Christianity is bad for humanity
Maybe this is not what you meant Christine, but this is how I read it.
Tom |
