Re: Suppose There Was No Bible
As was just said, Zoroaster was the principle deuty in the world before Chrisitianity came about. If the bible had never been composed, a vacuum would have formed, and large portions of the world's population would have to find some other belief structure to serve as the pervasive institution of their time.
Right now religion is waning, but without Christianity coming about and destroying innumerable lives and institutions, perhaps religion would be more popular. It's just too hard to say what would have happened without orthodox Christian theocracy as we know it.
One very important implication is worth mentioning, if Christians had not been present in southwestern europe in the 7th century, the saracen invaders would have routed all of europe, and it would then have fallen under the control of the islamic caliphate.
Ahhh got to go work.
Cam
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