Jesus was in New Testament which was not written by govt?? Guess you got another one perfectly wrong??
You are incapable of understanding.
so??? do you have any idea why you are telling us that??
Government is the only reason you even know about Jesus.
If Emperor Constantine doesn't recognize christianity, then it would have died out, like all other myths.
Then, in 382 CE, Emperor Theodosius makes christianity the official State religion of the Roman Empire, and bans, under pain of death, all other religions.
If that doesn't happen, the christianity dies out, like all other myths eventually do.
Note that previous emperors had banned Manichean Christianity and Nestorian Christianity, under pain of death. If that doesn't happen, then it's quite likely one of those, or Alexandrian Christianity, or even Cesarean or Byzantine Christianity would have supplanted Nicaean Christianity, and everything you know would be different.
In 533 CE, Emperor Justinian issues an edict making John the Bishop of Rome the first pope and the chief persecutor of heretics. John immediately starts torturing and murdering anyone in the Church that doesn't subscribe 100% to his views, and also everyone outside the Church who doesn't subscribe 100% to his views.
John also implements an hierarchal system within the church that paralleled the hierarchy of the Western Roman Empire.
Later popes would foist that system on the people of Western Europe, beginning with the crowning of Charlemagne in 800 CE.
Humanity takes 100-steps backwards, because the Greek and Roman Empires had moved away from the idea of rule by "divine right" and now it is being rammed down people's throats, and worse than that, it creates the greater and lesser noble class, who lord over people stifling all vision, thought, innovation and commerce.
Kings, dukes, barons and others cannot rule without the appointment, consent, blessing and support of the popes, and anyone who doesn't curry favor with the popes is deposed by the pope's personal private papal armies, and later by armies from the Holy Roman Empire.
It is a world filled with terror.
Christianity is being rammed down people's throats by government and the church under pain of torture, imprisonment, death or confiscation of property, and without that, you wouldn't know a damn thing about Jesus, because christianity would have died out.
History has proven that when a government stops supporting any religion, it eventually dies out.
That's why people just like you are panic stricken.
You can't force people to pray in school any more, and as government decouples itself from religion, people will, left to their own devices, eventually side with logic and reason instead of fantastical myths.
Does the liberal understand now?
To which Liberal are you referring?
I'm an ultra-conservative.
more than 1 billion?? Entire population of world was 300,000,000 in 1500AD. You just got caught red handed telling a whopping lie that a child could discover.
I never said anything about 1500 CE.
But, now that you've brought it up, population estimates for 1500 CE range from a low of 470 Million to an high of 540 Million, not the 300 Million you claim.
I wasn't referring to a single year, I was referring to 1,500 years of brutal torture, death and imprisonment.
An estimated 8 Million women were burned as witches, because apparently, your god is too damn stupid to understand that there are no such thing as witches.
