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Would the world be different What I mean is ok, in ancient
times, people worshiped many
different Gods. Then somewhere
along the line the big
3(Christianity, Islam,
Judaism) came and took over.
Lots of pagan temples were
destroyed. Yeah i know that we
have paganism now but its not
a clear line back from then to
now. How would the world be
different if those ancient
temples were never destroyed?
Would it be better, worse,
about how it is now?
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All the holidays would still be the same. : ) |
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Oh noes - I wonder if anybody told the Pagans. |
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no |
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Who knows? Who cares? |
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worse there would still be human sacifice |
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It might not make much of a difference. Then again, things might be a lot better. The Catholic Church probably slowed down science and technology by at least a few centuries. I identify with the necromancers of old. The Christians pegged us as evil demonic heathens, yet necromancers were never evil or violent people. In fact, Pan was a goat-like deity of ancient Europe, and the Christians decided to depict the Devil as looking like Pan. To this day, people have this image of the Devil as being a goat-like being, and this BS image was thought up by Christians that were trying to crush Paganism. Pan was never portrayed as evil by the ancient Europeans. |
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Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Shintoism are all bigger than Judaism, for the record. |
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If Christianity and Islam had not come along, we would all be worshiping something even worse later on, like Miley Cyrus. |
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You have a very Euro centric viewpoint. Paganism (defined as NON Judeo/Christian/Islamic faiths) has and continues to exist all over the world. You need to browse http://www.religioustolerance. org/ |
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All I know is I have never been more at peace, understanding, and accepting of the things around me since I left Christianity. I still believe a deity exists, for my own peace something bigger than me created all this and the way things work so "automatically" that I choose not to deny that fact. However, and this is the funny part, for me the Bible is a book of ethical and moral lessons that one should live there life by and Jesus, a man, choose to show how important "faith" by laying down his life for his fellow man. The problems come in that for the most part the only two faiths getting in our faces about converting are Christians and JW's. I don't condemn anyone's belief structure and I don't appreciate it when mine is condemned either. With out the devoutly structured monotheistic faiths, MAYBE mankind would be more adept at practicing religious tolerance instead of hate, injustice and war, all in the name of the deity they professor to worship. |
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Very complicated question - the ancient greeks developed most of the mathematics, algebra, logic, jurisprudence, discourse etc. that has been the foundation of western civilization since the enlightenment. However for various reasons it was lost to the western world; until the time of the crusades, when western Europeans started venturing east again for the first time in centuries. The Muslims had been aware of it all along. If the Greeks had taken over Europe instead of the Romans, we may have been in a better position. Of course the Celts would have resisted them too.... The basic problem is that the Romans -unlike the Greeks- didn't really *believe* in any of their Gods, and if a new one came along that sounded promising say, - Jesus - they jumped on the bandwagon and gave him a shot. Rest is history. |
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