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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's at the point where I'm not sure any of them would believe Jesus if he ever hypothetically returned. They would probably just explain it away with conspiracy theories and blame someone else if they were ever questioned on it.

The funny part to me, as a Baha'i, is that they did exactly that, when he did come back. The world ended. Look around. How many horse and oxen powered tools do you see? How many candles, lanterns, and torches? The old world got replaced by the one we live in now. Seriously, if you brought a human from 12,000-15,000 years ago at "the dawn of civilization" to the early 1800s, they'd still recognize parts of their world. Sure they'd be amazed at how much better everything was, and I'm sure that trains and steamboats would be straight up magic, but they'd recognize what a horse drawn carriage is, it's just fancier than anything they had, but they had horse and oxen drawn carts. If you try the same thing with someone from the early 1800s and brought them to today, they will recognize almost nothing.

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