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

So Eve is the correct answer. But she's a woman so disqualified.

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mad

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I'm not the least bit mad.

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banned

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No.

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dumbass

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That's not very nice.

Hitler? Gotta be top 10

Muhammad also. Huge.


Gavrilo Princip also

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Which were? How did Christianity change the culture of Europe? Were the Romans after Christianity significantly different from their forebears? Why would they have acted significantly differently had Christianity not been in play? They're essentially the same people. Did the culture of Western Europe have some sea change because of Christianity? How?

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You don't honestly believe this nonsense, right?

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Dude a few posts above says Christianity changed nothing. I'm convinced

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Yeah, I just saw that. I understand that it's edgy and cool to be hostile to Christianity nowadays. but to claim that the rise of Christianity had no effect on civilization, particularly Western civilization is beyond stupid.

Bill Watterston.

Seeing as how Christianity is a direct ripoff of previous religions, I think it's fair to say Jesus is way overhyped

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So even GK, who either defeated people's or protected them based on some form of religious belief, protection from those with religious belief, or destruction of those with religious belief, is impacted by a ln originator of one of the most widely followed religions.

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Ghengis khan was generally tolerant of all religions, and did not care if his subjugants were Christian, pagan, or Buddhist. Only if they submitted to his rule or not.

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There is not much of anything that has happened since the creation of religion that was not done based on one or more of them.

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I just have a hard time believing that people in power actually do most of what they do because of religious beliefs. I find they more often twist their religions to support their intent rather than the other way around.

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There are as many, if not more, Muslims in the world today as there are Christians

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Nyet

Currently it is estimated that Christians are 31% of the worlds population. Muslims are estimated at 23%. Personally, I believe both numbers to be low because of the China. It is almost impossible to estimate Chinese religious populations because the state does not condone open worship.


As far as history. Even with the weight of the Roman Empire thrown against it. Christianity spread like a wild fire. Thanks to Paul. If he had not been martyred in Rome he was planning on going to Asia as well. Christianity has influenced every culture in more ways than one. Again, it wasnt always positive, but it did. Christianity's power and influence spread because it became the official religion of the Roman Empire at the height of its power. The leverage the Catholic Church held on Europe being the biggest key to influencing world history. Because of the exploration and rise of the European empires, there is not one country that Christianity has not reached and impacted in a tangible way.

Literature, invention, higher education, war, munitions(gunpowder in europe was a vessel of the church for several centuries), architecture, sculpture, art...etc. I could keep listing the human institutions that Christianity has influenced till my fingers fall off, and you would never acknowledge it.

I am not even arguing from a faith based perspective. Most of what I just typed you would learn in a basic humanities class at any university in the world.

I am not arguing truth of the religion, but the impact.

The impact of Christianity, simply put, comes back to Paul.

Those institutions, much like all other inventions, would have been built by others.