Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma

Firstly, let us imagine a modern world where Jesus had never existed. Even for non-believers of the divinity in Christ, it is safe to assume with a moderate measure of confidence that a Jesus individual had existed, given that the figure of Jesus is the single most researched topic in human history. It stands to reason that had Jesus not existed whatsoever, evidence of this using modern objective research would quickly overwhelm the contrary.
It is clear that technological advances would have continued regardless as would have the discoveries of the Americas, and in science, and in medicine, et cetera. So what would our modern world be today? What would be written in our history books and how would our culture be affected?


Secondly, how long into the future will Christianity persist into the future while it waits for the apocalypse and second coming of Christ? The human race is yet within its infancy and the history of modern technology is merely a single generation of man. What then in another 10,000 years of man's existence, assuming we do not destroy ourselves before then and assuming we even prosper to that time? This relates clear to the first question, and I wonder- what will our culture be like when Christianity is cast aside along with pagan superstition?

Apocalypse is coming soon by all the signs evident around today. Ie: USA invading Iraq for no legitimate reason, every person needing to be marked to buy or sell anything (such as how one needs the marks of a bank card and government-issued number and many other things in order to live in today's society). Mankind won't get to another 10 000 years, so no need to even worry about that.

Christianity will never totally go away because unlike pagan superstition, Christianity is based in total truth.

However, if one wants to see what culture is like without Christianity, one merely needs to look at today's so-called "society".

In general, as society becomes less Christian, it becomes more of a repugnant cesspool. Ie: sees fit to legally murder it's own children as well as glorify and encourage all forms of debauchery and evil.

Without Jesus this devolution of civilized society into a repugnant cesspool would have occurred much sooner. Jesus' influence had delayed that devolution somewhat.