• Freefall@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Jesus would be funny. Honestly any key religious figure or even their betrayers (Judas) would just make for just a wildly different human race.

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      Would this delete the religion or make the religion undeniably false? I’m asking from the historical fact he existed as a human. If he definitely did not exist but it continued to exist idk if that would change much. If Christianity never existed in sure we would be speaking Arabic.

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        6 days ago

        Or alternatively, Christianity only exists because in an attempt to prevent it, someone from the future snapped Jesus out of existence. But it turns out that Jesus was just some dude who liked to do nice things for people until one day he poofed out of existence in front of a crowd and everyone suddenly figured he must be a god.

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        7 days ago

        Interestingly, we may not be speaking Arabic anyway.

        Christianity wouldn’t exist without Jesus as a central figure, and Islam probably wouldn’t exist without Christianity, as there would be no background for archangel Gabriel to deliver God’s “final” revelation, and he would just be the defender of Israelis as told in Hebrew Bible (correct me if I’m wrong).

        Without Islam, there would be no single force to fuel Arabic expansionism, and so Arabs would find themselves on a similar ground with European civilizations. Israelis, on their end, could actually expand and permanently settle the land instead of rebuilding their country millennia after.

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      7 days ago

      I’m sure it’s been done, a novel where this exact thing happens would be kinda interesting.