Before Christianity:
Widespread disease and famine
Average life expectancy below 30 (?)
Warring between rival villages
After christianity:
Christian aid agencies
Significant educational institutions
The calendar
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That's one of the stupidest [non science] posts I've seen here and obviously made up on the spot! (as most theology tends to be)
Christian aid only sprang up extremely recently and grew out of the churches funding missionaries. The first university was in India and Hindi. The first 'Western' university was actually in Fez and Muslim. There were calendars long before the Gregorian or Julian calendars. Widespread disease and famines still occur and were only significantly curtailed with the invention of proper water based sanitation and water purification, and then a little later with vaccination programs, pasteurization, antibiotics and pest eradication programs.
Christianity was the direct cause for many things - very few of them were positive, and those that were, usually it was coincidental, such as stealing technology during the crusades. Lucky, but serendipitous.
Wow. This reeks of stupidity.
Warring between rival villages still goes on, but on a grander scale (isn't that what war really is, after all?)
Famine and disease are still around, not as widespread thanks to science NOT Christianity.
Ditto for life expectancy.
Christians didn't invent the calender.
Nor educational institutes.
Stop puffing out your holier than thou chest.
Before Christianity:
Widespread disease and famine
Average life expectancy below 30 (?)
Warring between rival villages
The calendar
Aid agencies
Universities
After christianity:
Widespread disease and famine
The plague
Average life expectancy below 30 (?)
Warring between rival villages
Warring between christian sects
Warring between different religions
Christian aid agencies
The calendar
Attempts to eliminate science and education
here's a better one for you:
Before Jesus:
Widespread religious corruption
During Jesus' Life:
A small movement that spoke out against church corruption
After Jesus:
Widespread religious corruption, in the name of Jesus
Widespread disease and famine
We still have this today.
Average life expectancy below 30 (?)
In the darck ages, when christianity ran rampit, that was around the average life expectancy.
Warring between rival villages
Ever read history? Or watch the news even? It's happened in the past, and it's happening today. Christianity and other religions made it worse.
Christian aid agencies
Christianity is not the only religion with an aid agency.
Significant educational institutions
The bible is not very educational. In fact, kids started getting smarter when other books besides the bible were introduced.
The calendar
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the calendar we use today is the Mayan Calender.
Cute
Taking credit for better crops (druids did more)
Taking credit for Medicinal progress (done against Christian wishes OR for your priests alone)
War things total shit. You started many. No, Not all, but boundry wars are enevitable (nature) and cultural wars usually involve opposing religions
Do not even suggest you are educational pioneers, you only took control of it when you realized it's power, then you refused it to the population (dark Ages, Catholics are the first and origionating Christians, and the people most involved in education, Pat Robertson Uniiversity is a very bad joke, look at it's alumni)
Before Christianity:
Average life expectancy below 30 (?)
After christianity:
The calendar
So before Xtianity nobody knew how long people lived, hence the question mark. Is that why they took a wild stab at 900 years?
"Before Christianity:
Widespread disease and famine
Average life expectancy below 30 (?)"
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bubonic Plague!
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It wiped out 1/3 the population of Europe during the 14th Century when European society was dominated by an institution called CHRISTIANITY.
"Warring between rival villages"
The Christian Dark Ages certainly weren't known as an era of peace. Hell, War was almost as big an insitution as Christianity. The whole social hierarchy of Medieval Europe was based on who was a member of the warrior class (knight, and/or noble) and laboring class (peasants and serfs).
Calendars existed long before, not just Christianity, probably even the Romans. And people have been living under 30 until very recently(medicine, thy name is salvation). Some corrections.
I can play this game, too!
Before Hot Pockets
- Slavery
- The Black Plague
- The Salem Witch Trials
- World Wars I & II
- Disco
After Hot Pockets
- Desktop publishing
- Fall of the Berlin Wall
- The World Wide Web
- Proliferation of mobile phones and broadband Internet access
- Major advancements in stem-cell research
Hot Pockets are clearly responsible for such human progress!
You will find that advanced (for their time) educational institutions and calendars existed long before Christianity, and we still have famine, disease, and warring today.
In fact, Christianity has done more to stunt human progress than virtually another invented condition. Ever heard of the Dark Ages? Even today, for example with your opposition to stem cell research, you are blocking the way to improving the quality of life.
Not to mention that widespread calls from many fundies to "nuke all Muslims" is not exactly conducive to a peaceful, healthy environment.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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