2006-12-21 04:18:33 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It would be just like it is today. The Christians would have just invented him anyway. Truth isn't very important to religious belief.
2006-12-21 04:21:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The world would be a very different place. Whether you believe Jesus was divine or not, it is undeniable that he has had a profound effect on society as we know it. The Crusades, the Inquisition and the Holocaust (because Hitlers anti-Semetic propaganda would not have worked) would never have happened. The idea of the "White Man's Burden" would never have existed, so the wholesale extermination and exploitation of native peoples wouldn't have happened in Asia, the Americas and Africa.
That isn't to say everything would have been all sunshine and daisies. There are many advances in science and technology that also wouldn't have happened (sir Isaac Newton and his buddies during the Scientific Revolution were searching for the meaning of the Universe through Christian eyes afterall). The part of the "white man's burden" that requires those of European decent to help those who are less fortunate also wouldn't have existed.
2006-12-21 04:25:55 · answer #2 · answered by rainchaser77 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-21 04:20:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find the arguments that favor him as being myth rather than fact somewhat more compelling than the other way around, so, the answer could well be; no different. Governments have always, and continue to be, more in control of their people if those people are motivated by something beyond what mere mortals can offer them (an afterlife being the biggie). It is no coincidence that religious doctrine in many countries happens to coincide with government agenda. How much harder would it be to recruit suicide bombers if they knew they'd be giving up their one and only existence? How much harder would it be to recruit US soldiers to potentially die in foreign countries if they were not fighting for " 'God' and country" ? In other words, religion' is too valuable a tool to not have had a big impact up to this point in time. Taking Jesus, fact or fiction, out of the equation may well have, however, enabled America to be more in step with Europe as far as enlightenment to reality is concerned.
2006-12-21 05:12:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since Jesus never existed and was cobbled together out of other pagan god man myths, the question is moot.
If you're asking what the world would be like if Christianity had not been invented I'd say, just as screwed up, but with different details.
2006-12-21 04:26:57 · answer #5 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If Jesus was never born, then Israel would still under the old covenant and the way for the gentile nations to be restored to God wouldn't be available yet.
Yeshua Messianic Jews would still be looking for the Messiah.
And the Gospel (reconciliation between mankind and God) wouldn't be near completion of being taught to all nations.
2006-12-21 04:26:42 · answer #6 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Appelonius Christos would have been the next contender and we'd be right back where we are now. Or there would be something else. The old Judaic faith was due for a reformation, and Jesus came along at the time for it.
And a crack PR team was a big help.
2006-12-21 04:22:08 · answer #7 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is not charity, Jesus is not kindness, Jesus is not love.
What I mean by that is, there is the possibility of charity, kindness and love in this world beyond any one individual. Wisdom does not belong to one person, wisdom belongs to all.
If Newton did not discover the laws of gravity, someone else would have. If Copernicus did not formulate the theory that the earth revolves around the sun, someone else would have. If Shakespere did not write "How shall I compare thee to a summer's day..." or "Romeo, Romeo, wherefor art thou Romeo?" we would be quoting Jackson in hushed tones, or Filagrini instead.
It is not Jesus that makes the world, it is the idea he made concrete (but which were there all along) that makes the world. Ideas belong firstly to the world, and only secondly to the person who first realized them.
2006-12-21 04:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The world would be lucky to survive this long were it not for Jesus teachings of "Do to others as you would have them do to you"
Crusaders and inquisitors gave Christianity a bad name, but the heart behind the teaching revealed a side to God other religions are still discovering - God is a god of love, not a Master to fear
2006-12-21 04:31:20 · answer #9 · answered by wizebloke 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Exactly the same, Ashton Kutcher movies about butterflies included :)
Humankind would have found another "savior" to deify because some people need religion. I suspect we'd even have crosses because the world had a "savior vacuum" at that time in the Roman Empire and they would have found some other guy to fill the spot.
2006-12-21 04:21:51 · answer #10 · answered by Laptop Jesus 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, there wouldn't be universities or hospitals. All of the major colleges & universities in the US started out as church run institutions. Some have changed their names since (Trinity to Duke).
The end of the western Dark Ages didn't come about in spite of the Church, but because of the Church.
2006-12-21 04:35:11 · answer #11 · answered by nancy n 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋