Would we still be in the stone age without Christianity? It massively

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.

>>2467279
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

>>2467377
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.

>>2467389
Christianity would not have survived the Roman empire without God's intervention.

>>2467420
god?

>>2467399
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.

>>2467411
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.

>>2467438
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?

>>2467452
Islam spread almost entirely through conquest. Christianity spread by convincing the people who killed the messiah that he was right all along.

>>2467459
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.

>>2467438
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.

>>2467477
God let Babylon sack Jerusalem. You think he'd have second thoughts about letting Constantinople get sacked if they weren't keeping his word?

>>2467477
>he
Saint Paul was the one who did most of the work.

>>2467485
Jupiter let Rome fall because they weren't keeping his word.

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>>2467279
>Would we still be in the stone age without Christianity?
We had already advanced long beyond the stone age before Christianity

sage

>>2467498
>We
t. germanic barbcuck

>>2467399
They also collected men away from duties like paying taxes, farming land, and defending the borders against Arabs and Huns

>>2467279
>Would we still be in the stone age without Christianity?
nigga a u dumb

>>2467420
Christianity was widespread in Rome long before anything miraculous occurred.

>>2467521
The Germans were in the iron age at this time, just like the Romans.

>>2468167
germans were still barbarian tribes people when they sacked rome after rome collapsed. they weren't even kingdoms at that stage

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

>>2467438
Going by that logic the communist take over of Germany and Russia was a miracle

>>2467459
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

>>2468426
>on a history board
>literally thinks Stone Age refers to political structure and comparative technology

>>2468473
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