From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/5/26 1:28 AM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
      
   > Do you think the world would have progressed better   
   > without Christianity's influence?   
      
   There is nothing less "Christian" than the 1% -- the   
   nobility and monarchs. They were responsible for a   
   great deal of the progress through their immense greed,   
   selfishness and total disregard for humanity. It was   
   effectively their 2,000 years of warfare that pushed   
   technology.   
      
   What got us the rest of the way, and economically, was   
   the invention of the mass market. Go all the way back   
   to Roman times and there was no mass market.   
      
   Everyone had to eat but, you'd never build a factory   
   because you could never sell mass produced goods to the   
   masses who were little different from slaves...   
      
   Ironically, evil may be credited with that as well.   
      
   Though there was no mass market where ordinary i.e.   
   dirt poor people could afford mass produced shoes,   
   an army could. And they needed them. So as the most   
   evil men on earth threw away the lives of countless   
   people in order to enrich themselves. their armies   
   needs manufactured goods...   
      
   Shoes. Belts. Armor. Weapons.textiles...   
      
   AND THEN with the invention of gunpowder, there very   
   quickly came a point where the greatest warriors with   
   lifetimes of training and the best, most expensive   
   weapons & armor on earth could be easily killed by   
   some pig farmer who picked up a gun some two weeks   
   ago.   
      
   FINALLY, during the first world war, ordinary people   
   rose up against the ruling class in Russia, and closer   
   to hom, in France, there was a mass mutiny were the   
   ordinary people seized power over themselves and   
   defied the 1%.   
      
   Where's the bible in any of this?   
      
      
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