Christianity is a historical accident

[_Panopticon]

I was in Rome on Good Friday, and it occured to me how different things would be if Constantine had not adopted Christianty as the state religion.

[_jskains]

I was in Rome on Good Friday, and it occured to me how different things would be if Constantine had not adopted Christianty as the state religion.

Since it is the concept of the week, this also technically an argument from Ignorance.

And the flaw here is that not only is there an assumption that society would accept it, but that it would have continued beyond Rome. Some religions have not survived beyond their controlling empires.

You also assume you'd be an Atheist, which is also flawed. The butterfly effect is an insense reality. The one change you mentioned would have caused massive differences in history.

Hell, you might not even exist.

JMS

[_Drifting]

I was in Rome on Good Friday, and it occured to me how different things would be if Constantine had not adopted Christianty as the state religion.

Since it is the concept of the week, this also technically an argument from Ignorance.

And the flaw here is that not only is there an assumption that society would accept it, but that it would have continued beyond Rome. Some religions have not survived beyond their controlling empires.

You also assume you'd be an Atheist, which is also flawed. The butterfly effect is an insense reality. The one change you mentioned would have caused massive differences in history.

Hell, you might not even exist.

JMS

Why is there a penis intruding?

(No, not you skains, in the picture lower right hand corner)

[_huckelberry]

"i would be a..."

no.

Mithrism had plenty of opportunity to recomend iteself to the empire. It had plenty of opportunity to recomend itself as the empire fell apart. People choose for reasons of preference.

[_zeezrom]

Haha Drifting I wondered the same thing.

[_harmony]

Why is there a penis intruding?

(No, not you skains, in the picture lower right hand corner)

Oh, please. That is a finger. Good grief.

[_Drifting]

Why is there a penis intruding?

(No, not you skains, in the picture lower right hand corner)

Oh, please. That is a finger. Good grief.

Sorry....

[_BartBurk]

I was in Rome on Good Friday, and it occured to me how different things would be if Constantine had not adopted Christianty as the state religion.

My eighth-grade Ancient History teacher (a good Episcopalian) said it was such a miracle that Christianity survived that the best explanation was that it was Divine Providence.

[_DarkHelmet]

That's funny. I wonder what the Book of Mormon would have been like if Joseph Smith was a Mithraist.

[_Aristotle Smith]

That's funny. I wonder what the Book of Mormon would have been like if Joseph Smith was a Mithraist.

Probably a lot like the Book of Abraham.