Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24577079-20141203031648/@comment-5789047-20151214084608

Spartian300 wrote: in all honesty, a world without Christianity would be rather hellish. Think about. The Catholic Church is the oldest enitiy in the world, and has done far more good then bad. (let's not debate good and bad popes) The affect it has had on the world is important, and none of us would be alive without it. Christians shaped modern law, no question there, and the dogma of spreading the good news lead to missionaries to far off lands, resulting in explorations. Without that, who knows what could have taken it's place? Maybe the religion of the Norse, (aka, Nazism wet dreams) or Roman religion stays, (human sacrifice) or somethiing worse. Something good might have come up, but not as good as Christianity. Lol wut?

I disagree. I think the Catholic Church has done ludicrously more bad than good simply by censoring and retarding scientific and philosophical development for centuries. Christianity only really shaped modern law by letting us know what law shouldn't look like (i.e. Chrisian law), also most expeditions were done for trade reasons rather than prostelitysing (i.e. just about all of them).

The only reason this isn't the silliest post in this thread is because Saturn decided to cite the Bible for evidence for Jesus's literal existence.