Jesus Christ is arguably the greatest man who ever lived.
But that depends on who you talk to.
There are many scholars who have regarded Christianity as a poison, scholars like Friederich
Nietzsche, who coined the phrase, god is dead.
But what if jesus was never born?
Would the word have been better off?
Or did the birth of Jesus Christ really save us all?
That’s the question we’re asking, right now on life’s biggest questions.
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Neitzche wrote in his book, the antichrist, I condemn Christianity, I bring against the
Christian church the ost terrible of all the accusations that an accuser has ever had in
his mouth.
It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruption; it seeks to work the ultimate
corruption, the worst possible corruption.
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity, it has turned every value
into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of
soul.
Those are some pretty savage words, you have to admit.
So if jesus Christ was never born, according to nietzche, the world have been a much better
place, right?
Well, it really depends on who you’re talking to.
If jesus had never been born, we sure as heck wouldn’t be in the year 2019.
Our yearly calendar began with jesus’ birth year, 2 thousand and 19 years ago.
If jesus were never born, we would have continued to use the system put in place by Dionysius
Exiguus, who invented our current system in 525 AD.
Without another dating method to replace it, we would be currently be living in the year
1734 Diocletian.
Either that, or different areas of the worlds that followed different religions would be
following their own calendars.
AM 5774 in the Hebrew Calendar.
1725 Coptic, a variation of the Egyptian Calendarium.
There are separate calendars in China, Japan, there’s a separate Hindu calendar and several
others in Africa.
The point is, without the birth of jesus Christ, we wouldn’t be in the year 2019.
If jesus was never born, ancient religions would not have been replaced by Christianity.
There are many other religions, many of which people choose to follow instead of Christianity.
Without Christianity, the roman empire would have continued on to dominate much of the
world without Christian doctrine.
Rome would have continued to worship their pagan gods.
Romans weren’t too bothered about people practicing other religions within their empire,
so people belonging to different religions would have continued to practice whatever
religions they wanted.
Christianity also did a lot of good things for the world too.
Hospitals began during the middle ages were Christian institutions.
Universities started popping up in the middle ages as well, and the masses, who were illiterate
and did not have access to education started reading books, mainly, the bible.
In the middle ages, churches and cathedrals were the core of their cities.
Churches and cathedrals are where civillians would come together to hear music and the
word of god.
We would not have breathtaking buildings like the Duomo cathedral in Milan, the Vatican,
or the notre dame cathedral.
Sadly, that last one is a bit of a bummer to bring up now, but you get my point.
Yet for all the good Christianity has done for the world, many, many people have done
horrible things in his name, and many people have died in his name as well.
If jesus was never born, every horrible thing that had ever happened over the course of
history that was done in the name of jesus Christ would never have occurred either.
there sure as heck wouldn’t have been any crusades, where Christian missionaries slaughtered
much of Europe in the name of Christianity.
There wouldn’t have been witch burnings because there would have been no such thing
as a heretic.
Homosexuals would not have been persecuted in the same way because homosexuality would
not have been regarded as a perversion.
In ancient rome, homosexuality was somewhat common, and it wasn’t seen as a sexual perversion.
There were several roman emperors who were rumoured to have been homosexual.
Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Elagabalus, Hadrian and quite possibly others had catamites, which
was a term to describe young, pretty male slaves, kept as somewhat playthings.
Yet when Christianity started to spread in the first century AD, homosexual tendencies
were frowned upon and even persecuted.
Without the birth of Christ, the world might have a much more accepting view of homosexuals
today.
When you watch movies and tv shows that take place in the middle ages, or even up to just
a few decades ago, do you ever notice how many of the characters are motivated by religious
factors.
“god told me to do it’, they say ‘god wishes it’, ‘got has chosen me’.
Think about how many people would have lived, how many children would not have been assaulted
by priests without the holy bible to manipulate people into doing their bidding.
Its difficult to encapsulate just how different the world would be today if jesus Christ was
never born.
Christianity has changed humanity forever, for the good, for the bad and everything in
between.
How do you think the world would be different if jesus Christ was never born?
Let me know down in the comments.
For now, I’m going to respond to some comments from my last video on this channel, what if
the oxygen on earth decreased by half.
Jack Carroll – I love how different charlotte is in IO versus LBQ.
Shes so calm here but on informoverload shes so hyper.
I’m like a chameleon.
I can do all the things.
By the way, in case you didn’t know I also host another channel, Informoverload.
We do the news and make it entertaining, so please come say hi!
Greenpoloboy – what if we got sick and tired of asking questions.
Then we would probably be a whole lot dumber.
Laken Toluao – Boom, you just earned a subscriber you’re welcome and may god bless you.
I may have just lost your subscription thanks to this video but I hope all the christian’s
watching are open to discussion.