re: Which human being has made the biggest impact on human history?

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Yep. Like I said, the answer has to be a religious figure. I'd agree it's subjective beyond that.

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That's exactly why it doesn't have to be a religious figure. Those guys are more or less interchangeable as far as actually affecting the real events on the ground. That's why someone like Ghengis Khan outweighs them a thousandfold.

Put another religion in Christianity's place and you have much the same result. Put another dude in Ghengis Khans place and the Mongolian empire never exists. China remains in tact, as well as the Middle East. Who knows, maybe china hits the industrial revolution first. Kublai Khan never lives. You're taking about a significant percentage of the worlds population that doesn't die at the hands of Mongolian invaders. Vastly different rulers and and entirely different political landscape. Jesus inspires people on an individual basis, not on a political one