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The most important invention in human history, without which we would not be able to live the way we do today, is the invention and perfection of plastic.....yes....plastic..think about how plastic is part of our lives, health, workplace, vehicles, communication, everything...
IMHO - Monotheism is the GREAT CURSE OF MANKIND and has caused more tragedy than greed. This is one invention we did not and do not need. It replaces thought and experiment with FAITH as presented by self serving charlatans.
Your argument makes no sense; it might in a society where a greater segment of the population were well-educated and could be cou ted upon to act in a completely empircal manner, guided by an enlightened self-interest, but we're a log way from that, and it will be a while before the rest of the world catches up to the First World.
As monotheism has itself evolved andd eveloped, the role of the individual conscience has expanded, the Catholic Couter-Reformation of the Sixteenth Century served the same purpose its Protestant predecessor.
Because most people are scared, one way or another; the development of an individual conscience enables most individuals to within reason, set their own limits and, while as Mark Twain observed "Every man, like the moon, has a dark side, which he never shows", most people behave reasonably.
But on the other hand, absence of recognition of a Deity leaves the state as the primary source of near-unlimited power. The French Jacobins, the Soviet Bolsheviks, and the Nazis all recognized this, and the results are written in blood.
1.) Beer/alcohol/fermentation... Widely believed now to be the reason Humans evolved from hunter gatherers to farmers. Fermentation of spirits which came from grains led to the start of the agricultural period.
2.) Calculus.... Sir Isaac inventing it allowed calculations rate of change along a curve and in a 3rd dimension.
I don't think Jesus figures into it. If Jesus had never existed, nor the events in his life, the people of Europe would have simply embraced another theistic faith, and adapted it as necessary to take advantage of their economic development. Maybe just unadulterated Judaism. Of course, things would have developed somewhat differently, but in the end, would probably come out as a world lwith pretty much the same socio-economic and technological flavor. After all, the influence of Christ had almost no positive effect on European development in the Dark and Middle Ages, and Europeans had to afterwards piece things together, and it wouldn't really matter what theistic faith they adhered to, as long it could be hammered and bent into something that tolerated European greed.
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