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Originally Posted by mlc82  As a history nerd I have to disagree here, I'm just not sure what you're referring to. In terms of the bloodiest conflicts, the 20th century was nasty on a level that no other one ever was before it. There have always been both bloody wars and empathetic people, but in the "bloodiness" category the 20th century takes the championship belt.
I honestly don't see Christianity being responsible for empathy on any scale higher than before it came along, and it was mainly based upon previous ("pagan") religions that pre-dated it anyhow. Jesus himself could be seen as a major, shining example of empathy, but organized Chrisitianity threw his teachings out of the window as soon as they could, and tended to become more and more violent until the Church was finally neutered during that thankfully-happening reformation-renaissance period and beyond. |
How do we know if the world would have been less bloody without the crusades or whatever made the 20th century the bloody? Can we really know what the world would have been like without Jesus and followers? Maybe the world would have seen more of someother kind of bloodiness that kept continueing because no one had any idea about empathy from any source.