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Originally Posted by The David  Wolfgang, the problem is that those principles are not at all unique to the Bible. I'm not saying that someone can't be inspired by the Bible just because it has negative and positive teachings juxtaposed and equally effective, but that if it were to become obsolete, people would simply follow other religions. |
I terms of the OP, I was trying to point out - how do we know what effects Christianity has had? (or all the other religions?) Saying Christianity has failed would be better to say, the common message of religions is not being absorbed as much as it could be. Of coarse I agree that religions with dogma and specifics are missing the message. Although, some people do see what the message is above the rhetoric and it has helped the world a lot, imho. If Christianity (or other religions) didn't exist, I think we'd be worse off (even though we can see the corruption that has happened with them).