The Triumph of Christianity

[chequita guevara]

[Kuciwalker]

[Ben Kenobi]

Hopefully, since i belive that we are too many people on this planet. I wouldn't mind if the danish population stablized at approx 2-3 mill (current 5 mill). Rest of the world should do the same.

Then the Danes will not have a country to come home to, if that is their attitude. Just because this is what you want to see doesn't mean that all the groups that are in Denmark will also want this.

[CharlesBHoff]

One of the factor in the fall of the western roman empire was way below replacement birth rate which lead to than manpower shortage which lead to not haveing than enought people to grow foods and grather the foods that lead to than lower birthrate. Once this cycles start it very very hard to stop.

[Ned]

What the realtively wealthy, Marxist Europeans will never fully grasp is that Christianity fundamentally appeals to poor. Christ may have been the first one to preach that all men were created equal, that all will be equal in the hearafter, and that the meek shall inherit the Earth. Christianity teaches one to love one's neighbor and breeds a climate of fundamental respect for human worth.

This development in Africa holds great promise for the advancement of that continent towards modern civilization, as any civil society must be composed of citizens that have fundamental respect for each other.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ned
Christianity teaches one to love one's neighbor and breeds a climate of fundamental respect for human worth.

How many Christians do you know? I know plenty, and they are among the meanist, nastiest, most hate-filled people I've ever met.

[Heresson]

Which means they do not understand their religion

[Drake Tungsten]

How many Christians do you know? I know plenty, and they are among the meanist, nastiest, most hate-filled people I've ever met.

That hasn't been my experience. I guess you should've stayed in Nebraska...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Heresson
Which means they do not understand their religion

Hence the prayer, "Jesus, save me from your followers."

I don't think any Christians understand their religion, since Jesus was trying to show people how to be better Jews, not create a whole new religion. Boy did you people ever get it wrong.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

How many Christians do you know? I know plenty, and they are among the meanist, nastiest, most hate-filled people I've ever met.

That hasn't been my experience. I guess you should've stayed in Nebraska...

Nebraska is different. People are just nicer there in all catagories.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Assuming Cantor is correct. Heck, there weren't even peasants in the Roman Empire 'till it was declining. I doubt one should compare the end of the Empire with the flowering of the Middle Ages.

It was with the triumph of Christianity that Rome collapsed.

Hmm- then who were those peasants who farmed the land in Augustan times? When repeated epidemics started striking the Mediterranean Roman Empire (from the time of the Antonine Emperors onward) barbarian invaders could be settled on vacant land with ease, as could retired legionaries, because the population in rural areas had also suffered (although not apparently as greatly as the cities of Rome, or Antioch, or Alexandria).


Also, the appeal of Christianity during a time of severe population die-off and suffering was that it gave more 'hope' than pagan Stoicism, because it offered the promise of an afterlife, and attempted to place the suffering in that philosophical/theological framework- much as Buddhism did for the masses in the burgeoning Chinese Empire.

[Ned]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


How many Christians do you know? I know plenty, and they are among the meanist, nastiest, most hate-filled people I've ever met.

No doubt you identified yourself has a religion-hating bigot first.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


And if you succeed, what then?

:shrug: I've always felt that human population on this planet ought be not any higher than 5 million in order to allow the ecology to truly fournish the way it was supposed to and restore the homostatis.

[Barinthus]

DP

[Kontiki]

Ben, I'm a little confused. Are you of the opinion that the planet can sustain an infinite number of people?