What If There Was No Christianity?
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What if Christianity had never existed? Would the world be a better place? Or would it be worse?
Was Christianity really responsible for persecutions, wars and genocides?
Was it responsible for the extermination of the native populations of North and South America?
Was it responsible for the holocaust that was perpetrated against the Jews of Europe in the 1930's and 1940's?
What role did Christianity have with slavery in the United States?
Find out the truth about the world's most preeminent religion and find out about the amazing and astounding things that had to happen for Christianity to become as large as it has and become the most influential religious faith in the world.
Find out why Christianity affects every American:
even if they're not a Christian.
Learn the actual history of Christianity in a way
that you've never heard it told before.
Thomas C. Brennan
Thomas Brennan is a screenwriter, author, historian and entrepreneur. He has authored the novels of "Faith of A Child" and "The Monster That I See" and the non-fiction books: "What If There Was No Christianity?" "Deady Women; Shocking Crimes of the Gentler Sex" and "Women Who Kill, Lie, Steal and Cheat: But Mostly Kill."
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What If There Was No Christianity? - Thomas C. Brennan
What If There Was
No
Christianity?
Thomas Brennan
What If There Was No Christianity?
Published by Thomas Brennan
Copyright 2011-2012 by Thomas Brennan
Smashwords Edition
Author’s Foreword
Though I am a Christian I have not written this book to advance Christianity or evangelize on behalf of Christ. Others can do that far better than I.
Neither is this book designed to argue for the existence of God or the divinity of Jesus. That is for each of us to decide. Nor do I presume to speak for God, or Jesus, in any way.
For skeptics of Christianity I recommend reading the Gospels of the New Testament and the actual words of Christ, which is what I did. The words of Jesus himself are the best testimony to who he actually was… or is. For skeptics of God I recommend reading the Old Testament and the communications ascribed to God himself, which is again what I did: for the same reason.
Rather, I wrote this book to consider and evaluate the effects that this faith has had on the development of the world, and in particular, our western, civilized world, from the beginnings of Christianity up to our present day. That the effects have been profound cannot be denied. Whether they have been for the good or the bad: is another matter.
This book is not meant to be an historical textbook, but rather a primer
that provides an accounting of the chronological development of Christianity as a religious institution
and the relevancy of this institution to society: especially our modern society today.
And finally, this book examines whether Christianity has been of benefit, or of detriment, to the world.
Today the critics of Christianity are manifold. Many of them will point out the Inquisitions of medieval Europe or the Crusades of the Middle East as examples of how this religion has been of detriment to the world. They argue that the practitioners of this religion have engaged in persecutions, wars and even genocide because of Christianity. And there is some truth in these criticisms.
However, I urge the reader, and critics of religion in general, to realize that the reprehensible acts that were committed in the course of these and other events mentioned in this book, were the acts of men: and to further remember that because something is done in the name of God, it does not mean that it was done by God.
Table of Contents
Preface
The Beginnings
The Coincidental Emperor
The Ten Commandments
The Conversion of The Barbarians
The Institutionalization of The Church
Protestantism
Christianity and America
The Sins of Christianity
What Is Christianity?
What If There Was No Christianity?
Summary
Selected Bibliography
Preface
Today some two billion people on planet earth claim