The Event that Caused the Most Damage to Humanity?

[Ted Striker]

The invention of branching threads!!!

I know you are reading this **** Underwater Jockey!!!

Harrison Ford in horrible Russian accent: "Fire missle three!"

[Drake Tungsten]

The election of George W. Bush in 2000.

50 years later it shall be known as a date that will live in infamy.

I agree. His lax immigration policies are going to allow the Mexicans to ruin our great nation...

[MRT144]

drake, should we gas them and burn the corpses in large crematories? would that solve the "mexican problem"

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by aaglo
Creation of christianity.

- It has killed outrageous amounts of people (look for words "crusades", "inquisition" and "columbus")
- It has slowed sciense down so much. Without it humankind could have achieved this level of technology a few hundred years ago.

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Jon Miller

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by obiwan18
Read my post again Monkspider. I exclude the Crusades and the Inquisition as Christian trolls because they were misuses of religious authority. Your target is not Christianity per se, but the actions of some believers in the past.

I agree, both were terrible and caused great harms, but can Christianity be faulted for what it does not teach?

Are you on drugs? These were authorised or even called for by the Pope.

[aaglo]

Originally posted by Jon Miller

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Jon Miller

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This was the first rating I ever got.

But alas, I was being completely serious.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Are you on drugs? These were authorised or even called for by the Pope.

I doubt obiwan, being a mennonite, recognizes the Pope as being an infallible relgious authority.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
The Treaty of Versailles

ekhem....?

The fall of Rome sent humanity back by 500 years.

Again and again, Rome fell only in XV century.

the creation of Islam

I don't agree. That's nothing really bad. But creation of theocratic state in Medina, yes, perhaps, if You see it this way.

Crusades?

They were just late and not very strong reply to earlier Muslim conquests

Islamic tribes were very pro education. It was they who preserved Roman education when the Christians were burning books. Don't worry, they saved Persian works as well.

They weren't. But the rulers were. Also, when You say Christian, mean western ones only.

[TheStinger]

Religion in general and Christianity and Isalm in particular

[Paul Hanson]

The invention of reality TV.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Heresson


ekhem....?

Without the unreasonably harsh penalties against Germany imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, it is likely Hitler would never had risen to power and the rise of Nazism, the Holocaust and WWII would never have happened.

[St Leo]

Um -- Catholic monasteries, especially Irish monks, were partly responsible for the preservation of future generational knowledge of the ancient world.

And the Catholic religion, while exploitative in the feudal system, did provide some base of stability in the early Middle Ages until better systems would emerge centuries later.

Isn't it the case that if it weren't for Catholic monks, we would probably have far less knowledge of the ancient world that we have, today?

If the Thousand Year Reich had lasted a thousand years, would you be praising their public library system for saving a few books from the Nazi book burners? You have to take a holistic view of the whole thing.

Monasteries themselves destroyed far more literature than they ever preseved while encouraging the best and brightest to waste their lives on self-flagellation and mindless prayer.

[Jon Miller]

ummm

you know that christianity wasn't responsible for the destruction of knowledge that happened at the end of the roman empire?

Jon Millr

[Jon Miller]

I am thinking you are confusing how the catholic church acted at different times

Jon Miller
(alexandria was most likely not the result of a christian riot)

[Jon Miller]

and China was not Christian at the time, nor was India

admit it, all the anti-christian posts don't have a leg to stand on

Jon Miller