Whad'if

[Moab]

The Great Genghis Kahn wiped out Christianity at Vienna and the world escaped the dark ages and we would have grown enlightened faster.

The great artist and thinkers would have been free to developed their art and science without fear of reprisal from a church steeped in religious bigotry and ignorance.

We would be free from being told how to think and act and forced to accept anything the Church sez under the guise of torturing knowledge from you.

We would be free from the ignorance that handcuffs today people would not blindly and obediently accept anything they are told and the only hope for redemption executed from a person in a church saying he is doing Gods will just to control you.

Today we would be free from Christian exploitation that drain untold billions tax free from our economy all the while leading the sheep to believe that in the end there's a better place.

Too me that's sick .. I see this world as a beautiful place. The planet earth is a warm, loving, forgiving and abused mother who is dying from the over populating with more people than it can support all in the name of God ...

[bluffmanxx]

guess what darlin'? the void left if christianity had been destroyed would have been filled somehow - perhaps by a far more repressive religion or government.

do we really want to start playing "what if" games?? there is really no point. hell, isn't that the very definition of regressive?? backwards thinking??

[billynomates]

guess what darlin'? the void left if christianity had been destroyed would have been filled somehow - perhaps by a far more repressive religion or government.

Maybe by communism? I'm sure Nikki would love the freedom North Koreans and the Chinese enjoy.

[Christopher]

A brutal dictator who slaughtered hundreds of thousands in order to expand his empire is considered "great"? Hummmm interesting.

[Moab]

And how many died under the banner of god ....

[billybob]

wayyyyy too much realistic (bad ) stuff going on to even play this game.

[Christopher]

And how many died under the banner of god ....

To many to count but I did not refer to any religious leader as great.

[billynomates]

Christopher you'll learn! Moab's stock in trade is to make a statement and then instead of defending her statement she'll start attacking something else.

[Niccivan]

The "What-if" game is a senseless game that only makes you dwell and obsess on things longer and harder. You will NEVER know the answer to your "What-if" questions. And the fact you even try to make assumptions as to what would happen is ridiculous. The spiraling effect of one event like that would change the entire history of the world. WE might not even be sitting here typing this today had your "What-if" happened.

on a small scale....

"WHAT-IF" I had never gotten pregnant at 16 and had a baby. Would I have gone on to college right after? Go to Nashville to sing like I wanted? Would I have even become an engineer? Learned to play poker to pay my way through school? Changing that one single event in my life would have changed my entire course and nothing would be the same. And who knows if it would have actually turned out better? Far as I know it could have been way worse.

Welcome to Logical Thinking 101....

[billynomates]

Enoch Powell(a very logical man) was once asked 'If you could change one thing in history what would it be?' he replied 'As I am unable to change the past there is no point even thinking about the subject.' (or words to that effect).