Was Christianity the worst thing to ever happen to the world?

[RINO Tom]

Wow, the very premise of this post is just so dumb, haha.  It shows a fundamental and lazy misunderstanding of "the Dark Ages," not to mention the Nazi ideology behind the Holocaust.  I also love how this type of weird revisionism discounts how violent and genocidal the world was before any of the post-Axial Age religions.  You can debate whether or not the pagan Classical world or the Medieval Christian world were "better" in one way or another, but you absolutely cannot pretend like everything was great and enlightened until Christianity came along, haha.

[RINO Tom]

I don't think so.

We don't understand the necessity for religion as we live in the technocrat era.

You can watch religion being slowly washed from many cultures in your lifetime.

This ... seems like an incomplete and oversimplified take.  Exactly how much further do you think religion is going to fall?  It seems asinine to think that people will ever stop searching for spiritual or philosophical meaning beyond materialism, and you could reasonably argue that the main group that has been shed from the ranks of "the religious" were Christmas & Easter types who felt compelled to be part of an organized religion because "that's what you did," and now they no longer feel that way.  This group was always bigger in places like Western Europe, Canada and Australia/New Zealand, hence the bigger decline.

[RINO Tom]

I think if you narrow the question down a bit, you can point the finger at early Christianity's tendency towards schisms over seemingly minor theological matters (Arianism, Monophysitism) as weakening the Roman Empire at a very unfortunate time.

But can we really be sure that was so bad with hindsight?  No society has been or ever will be perfect, but the late Roman Empire sucked and could have Frankly (heh heh) learned something from the so-called barbarians who brought about their downfall.  It was a decadent pile of waste by 476 AD.