First and foremost, this is not a debate where you include your religious beliefs because they are not the point of this topic. Also whether or not you believe in a religion does not matter and do not use anything like that because it has nothing to do with this topic.
I usually watch the history channel, and they always talk about multiple cultures. One that keeps coming back up is the famous Greeks. Now we have found out that back over 1500-2200 years ago they where able to Iron Cast, heat large baths, heat floors. Also actually had running toilets that would wash the waste out. They had the aqua ducks which where famous for being the first water pipe pretty much.
Now here is the point of argument. It would seem that after Christianity started to spread, Technology fell. The Romans where defeated and all of its technology defeated. Now religion created large wars and only in the last 300-400 years have we gotten back all of which we lost from the Romans. (Except for working toilets which took a lot longer) Now my question is a 2 parter. (1) Do you agree? (2) Do you think if Christianity had never been created that our current technology would be greater than it already is?
No, I don't agree. Rome fell because it had become to large to sustain itself. With nothing of significant wealth to conquer, it's main source of income vanished. It's government had flooded the market with too much money, and began suffering severly from inflation. The only choices they had were to increase the amount of money that was being given to the people, and to increase taxes to deal with their sudden losses. Instead of stabilizing the econmy, this made the poor poorer, driving most of them to homelessness. This, coupled with the fact that their former soldiers had returned from war to find that their property had been repossessed, led to a large number of Roman citizens wanting to do something about their current situation. Theyr rovolted en masse, bringing the country to it's knees. The emperor was forced to abandon the capital city of Rome and split the country itself into two seperate entities, the Western Roman Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire, which later became known as Byzantine, and whose capital was Constantinople. Seeing the sudden weakness of the Western Roman Empire, Germans raided countless cities, including Rome itself. These people were illiterate, and when they came upon Rome's vast sources of knowledge, they only saw something that they could burn to keep themselves from freezing to death. Byzantine suffered a different fate, it's enemies, many of the nations it had conquered as well as various others such as the Huns, attacked. Byzantine was essentially reduced to only Constantinople, as it was the only city that was defendable. The reason people think Christianity caused the fall of the Roman Empire is because of the Catholic Church's relationship with Rome itself, and because when the people had no hope left of survival, they turned to a divine power for hope, causing a large increase in the number of Chritstian believers in the Roman empire.
[DEBATE] Technology and Religion
