Would we still be in the stone age without Christianity...

Would we still be in the stone age without Christianity? It massively accelerated rational human thought and development, and made Europe the superpower of the world for hundreds of years.

We were well past the stone age and still moving forward by the time Christ came around.

Europe was a superpower before Christ, Europe was a fractured shithole after Christ; Europe then went on to become an even greater superpower than it was before Christ came.

The question is mostly irrelevant. Although I'd argue that Christianity has been a positive introduction to European history, saying it steamrolled European civilization is partisan and untrue. It belongs with armchair conservative historians who believe that science and the abolition of slavery were the direct results of Christianity, and were only achieved because of its introduction.

No. Europe made Christianity relevant, not the other way around. Latin America, and some African countries are Christian and they're shit holes.

a more interesting question is whether christianity would have survived without the roman empire

Monasteries were the primary vector for the collection and spread of knowledge throughout Europe. No Christian Monasteries means a much slower rate of development

Christianity was literally a doomsday cult that attached itself to the Roman Empire, first through plebeians and women, then via demagogue politicians, the same way politicians today pander to Islam to increase their political support, finally, installing sharia-like religious tyranny supported by gang violence and mob rule.

Christianity would not have survived the Roman empire without God's intervention.

god?

They were, once there was no longer a wealthy, centralized state sponsoring and funding universities and schools of philosophy. Although the Romans didn't have an impressive education system for the nobility, and it was literally non-existent for the commoners.

The Catholic Church greatly expanded education, but it'd be incorrect to imply that it didn't exist before they showed up. And just as the Romans mostly limited education to reading, writing, basic mathematics, and rhetoric; the church mostly stuck with philosophy, theology, basic mathematics, and the humanities.

Most monks didn't attend university in Paris or Salamanca to learn algebra, trigonometry, or advanced civil engineering.

That is a miracle no matter how you cut it. The Romans killed Christ and within 200 years Christs teachings were at the core of Roman life.

Try 300, plus another 81 years before it was politically strong enough to outlaw all other faiths.

Buddhism and Islam also had spread rapidly in a short amount of time, was that also the work of the Holy Spirit? Other organized religions that would prove to be more than Christianity's match?

Islam spread almost entirely through conquest. Christianity spread by convincing the people who killed the messiah that he was right all along.

Christianity spread through the Greco-Roman world through a widespread, dissident Jewish diaspora, religious uncertainty in the face of political instability, and political pressure once the Imperial college and their families began adopting it.

Christianity was brought to the Americas, Africa, and Asia via conquest.

So the Eastern Roman Empire falling into Turkish hands was a miracle of Allah? Think about it. An illiterate merchant in backwater desert region and a few centuries later he overtakes the Christian Roman Empire... It's a miracle no matter how you put it.

Retard.

God let Babylon sack Jerusalem. You think he'd have second thoughts about letting Constantinople get sacked if they weren't keeping his word?

>he
Saint Paul was the one who did most of the work.

Jupiter let Rome fall because they weren't keeping his word.

>Would we still be in the stone age without Christianity?
We had already advanced long beyond the stone age before Christianity

sage

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t. germanic barbcuck

They also collected men away from duties like paying taxes, farming land, and defending the borders against Arabs and Huns

>Would we still be in the stone age without Christianity?
nigga a u dumb

Christianity was widespread in Rome long before anything miraculous occurred.

The Germans were in the iron age at this time, just like the Romans.

germans were still barbarian tribes people when they sacked rome after rome collapsed. they weren't even kingdoms at that stage

hah, lies .
without yahwh we would still be in space, STILL.
dumb schill. go die.

Going by that logic the communist take over of Germany and Russia was a miracle

It also helped that the Roman Empire and its successor states violently suppressed pagan religions. Having secular forces doing the conquering and oppressing with the churches sanction is effectively the same as having a theocrat carry out violence

>on a history board
>literally thinks Stone Age refers to political structure and comparative technology

the iron age in europe started in the 11th century
rome collapsed in the fifth century
christianity spread to europe in the fifth century
so, no, germany wasn't in the iron age at that time