How much more advanced would the world be today if Christianity never existed...

How much more advanced would the world be today if Christianity never existed? Has there ever been a stronger force of societal and cultural regression in history?

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If Atheism never existed we'd all be reunited with God in the Millennial kingdom by now.

We would be colonizing galaxies if it weren't for christcucks.

Although you're memeing, assuming that there would be no other monotheistc religion rooted in slave morality, power voids and decentralisation, the world would be materially a much worse place.

The defining features of the West and in particular the Western culture for innovation that was first extant in the late Middle ages and characteristic of the Renaissance and ages to follow, was the rule of law, sophisticated legislature, and individual agency.

The Catholic Church was the single greatest civilising force in the West, arguably more so than Rome. They were the first to create a multilevel bureaucracy similar to the modern state, the corporate chain and other sophisticated bureaucracies - the Roman Empire was unable to impose an uniform set of laws over most its' dominion. The Catholic Church also was the first institution to enable individualized property contracts, the first to prohibit incest and promote bureaucratic meritocracy in the West through the practice of Bishopdom. Papal legal scholars were the ones to recover and compartmentalise the Justinian Code, and without that Western legal tradition and a safety net as well as an enabling backbone for inventors and great artists would never have been possible

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>romans did more for scientific advancement than greeks

nobody believes this, romans were just glorified niggers compared to them

These

>the first to prohibit incest

there's literally nothing wrong with incest though

>quantifying scientific advancements

There is a tremendous amount wrong with incest.

>kangdoms
lol

Except having retarded siblings. Personally as long as they do it mutually with consent and don't try to have a child, not hurting anyone, then have at it.

I do find it slightly disgusting though.

>implying the renaissance wasnt a huge step backwards into MORE superstition and religious fanaticism.

You know those giants Newton said he stood on the shoulders of? He was talking about medieval scholars, not his immediate predecessors.

>le 'it doesn't effect me cultural relativism'
would you rather live in a society where people can fuck their sisters, or a society where people can't fuck their sisters

if you had to write the memes and legal code for a civilization and wanted it to achieve greatness, would you include a prohibition against sisterfucking?
of course you would, because sisterfucking is bad
fucking libertarians they get worse every year

We wuz scientsts n shit

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shit meme

>le christianity is the cause of all ills of the middle ages meme

The decadence of the middle ages was caused by the fact that basically all infrastructure of the roman empire had collapsed while hordes of uncivilized barbarians were migrating across Europe while ransacking everything in their path and fucking slaughtering each other.
Learn some history you 13 year old microcuck.

Images like this are a microcosm of how unreasonable and autistic atheists are. How many times does that image have to be debunked before you stop embarrassing yourself with it?

Having a set of beliefs is one thing, being a fucking retard when you have been proven wrong ad nauseum is another.

Good post

>believing in something that irrefutably cannot exist

???

Watch and learn: youtube.com/watch?v=dgESPmh-TxY
The guy in the video makes some very good points.

We'd mostly likely still be on the same level as we had been since science stopped progressing in about 200 BC, before medieval Catholic thinkers at Catholic universities invented modern science.

Kepler/Bacon was chastised by the church for daring to create a rainbow with a prism. They believed only God should have that power.

Yeah that surely happened.

christcuck BTFO

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Charles II of Spain would've liked to have a word with you, unfortunately, his tongue is too big for his mouth.

>Irrefutably cannot exist
>God's existance can be refuted
Go ahead and prove it then.

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This assumes that euro polytheists would have been incapable of creating decentralized governments, multi-level bureaucracies, bureaucratic meritocracies.

This is begging the question.

>>Papal legal scholars were the ones to recover and compartmentalise the Justinian Code, and without that Western legal tradition and a safety net as well as an enabling backbone for inventors and great artists would never have been possible

This is also begging the question about why a polytheist kingdom also could not have done this. There is no reason other then special pleading for christardation and thus your argument fails.

That said I have no illusions about us all flying around in spaceships right now or some such crap.

>>We'd mostly likely still be on the same level as we had been since science stopped progressing in about 200 BC, before medieval Catholic thinkers at Catholic universities invented modern science.

Ahh look, bullshit.

Literally what is wrong with slave morality? Master morality is just being an asshole.

Have any evidence for that claim?

Anyways, modern science was predicated on the advancements made by 14th century scholastics in moving away from Aristotelian natural philosophy/science. But this only happened in the first place because of the theological need to reject aristotelean positions that did'nt gell well with the faith, while maintaining the union of faith and reason. This lead to them realizing that many positions which were more suitable to Christian Theology in science were actually superior to many of those aristotelean positions that weren't, and it was these works that Galileo, Newton, and others, would read and develop in their own scientific endeavers. Read Duhem's works on the history of science.

Modern science was literally a byproduct of Christian theology.

>>Duhem's works
Yeah this is your problem. What we consider modern science is the product of a long chain of discovery and knowledge going back to the times of the classical greeks, and this edgy desire to give pissant medieval bible bangers undue credit is simply revisionist nonsense.

heres your (you)

Even if that were true

>current year
>buying into the human progress meme

Better to be an asshole then to be a little bitch, and christfaggotry makes people into little bitches.

>Every source that doesn't agree with my marxist historiography is revisionist!

cry harder fedora

>kepler
>somehow in the middle ages
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>Has there ever been a stronger force of societal and cultural regression in history?
Islam went to Mars before the Christians invaded... Australian Aborigines split the atom before Christian white man came... Modern day latin Americans were performing brain transplants before the conquistadors arrived...
It's like Christianity just held back everything. In comparison to all other countries Christian majority countries produced literally nothing.

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