What good had Christianity done to the world since 2000 years ago?

Discussion in 'Religion Archives' started by Saint, Oct 29, 2012.

  1. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    Sure, from a psycho-sociological perspective, there is a point about mob mentality. People, when part of a group, will possibly do things (such as acts of extreme aggression) that they would never do on their own.
    Over time, this mob mentality can get codified and a person adhering to the codex can manifest mob mentality even when not immediately part of a group.


    But here, we are talking about theists. If God exists and is person-like, this means that He is watching all this shit going on in His name done by theists, and is just letting it happen. To boot, He apparently set up and runs the Universe so that non-theists are fully dependent on theists for all input on "God."
    This is what I can't quite digest.
     
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  3. Neverfly Banned Banned

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    We were talking about the word, "Winning" as semantics, not atheist vs. theist. How you made this leap is quite mysterious.
     
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  5. Syne Sine qua non Valued Senior Member

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    Apparently highly disputed:
    "Scholars like Arnold H. Green and Hossein Nasr have argued that starting in the 10th century, some medieval Islamic madrasahs became universities.[22][23] George Makdisi and others,[24] however, argue that the European university has no parallel in the medieval Islamic world.[25] Courtenay et al. partially critique this view by stating similarities between madrasahs and southern European universities.[26] Other scholars regard the university as uniquely European in origin and characteristics.[27][28]

    Many scholars (including Makdisi) have argued that early medieval universities were influenced by the religious madrasahs in Al-Andalus, the Emirate of Sicily, and the Middle East (during the Crusades).[29][30][31] Other scholars see this argument as overstated.
    -wiki (University)​
     
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  7. qsa Registered Member

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    AFAIK, all humans grow up with some kind of religious teaching/indoctrination by parents or society, and that is as a social agenda. Only later individuals will think for themselves and decide. Those theists which like to convert the undecided/atheist people or from other religions are very happy to oblige, because that has a whole lot of credit with god.

    It is amusing that theist always collect big credit when they try to convert somebody or do petty help. But the guy, theist or not, who discovers a useful drug seems as not eligible for any credit with god.
     

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