Orthodox Christianity is superior to all other religions.
>>2789177
Reminder that the only real Christians in the world today are Levantine people and Georgians/Armenians. Europeans and Americans are phonies and larpers
>>2789188
>Armenians with their fucking animal sacrifices and gajillion incorporated pagan practices are somehow the real Christians
>B-BUT THEY WERE THE FIRST TO ADOPT CHRISTIANITY
More like the first to corrupt Christianity.
>>2789177
Proven by all that success they had evangelizing people...oh wait.
Are you a good person or just afraid?
Both.
Afraid. I'm a pretty meek person and will probably kill myself within the next few months, so..... pic related.
>>2783412
afraid
What's the best biography of Caesar?
>>2783337
Gibbon
>>2783337
"Caesar, Life of a Colussus" by Adrian Goldsworthy. Pure kino and very detailed.
"Julius Caesar" by Phillip Freeman is like the more condensed version and doesn't focus as much of the time of Rome before Caesar like In Goldsworthys book.
>>2783993
The freeman book is also good though. Forgot to include that.
I'm no crazy liberal sjw or an LBGT person, but why does God of the abrahamic religions hate homosexuality so much? I mean, homosexuality isn't harming anyone and animals partake in homosexual acts. Hell, why would an all knowing and all loving God create people who he knew would be homosexuals and partake in these desires in the first place. They were all destined for hell since the day they were born, Homosexuals never stood a chance. Why would God create these people knowing that they'd go to hell?
>>2788358
>I mean, homosexuality isn't harming anyone
>>2788358
>I mean, homosexuality isn't harming anyone and animals partake in homosexual acts
>>2788358
>Catholic priests have a statistically higher chance of going to hell than the general population
I mean, I'm no militant atheist, but that seems like a pretty significant oversight to me.
Why did indians tribes fight each others if they had no concept of territorial property?
Why do urban gangs fight over turf if neither of them owns the deed to the property?
>>2783223
that's pretty much the same thing, it doesn't answer my question
>>2783211
for women ofc, hunters need pussy constantly
many black nationalists like to claim that the "Moors civilized Europe" or "educated Europe"
yet they only really were around Southern Spain and their reach was essentially non existent not even making it past France
>based Charles Martel
so why is this still a meme
they had some influence in the early middle ages, that much is true and at one point Cordoba was the largest city in Europe and one of the largest in the world but the cultural or scientific influence of the Moors and Arabs in general is hugely exaggerated in pop-history
The 'Moors' were Arabs and Berbers.
Painting foreigners the artist never saw before as exotic and outlandish as possible is common throughout history. Other non-ethnic/racial examples are artists from other time periods making art of historical battles from centuries ago, like the Biblical tales of the Macjiowski Bible. All the soldiers are in 13th century armour/weapons, all are white. Other subtler examples are artists from 100 years later portraying people in their contemporary clothing, etc.
Any apostates here? Ex-whatever, converting to another religion or becoming atheist. Why did you leave your religion?
>>2787493
I left because I had a crisis of faith, and for the first time I started reading sources critical of things like miracles and the Catholic understanding of the early church. Overall they were more convincing that the Catholic sources.
>born
>baptized Presbyterian as young babe
>grow up in church
>comfy life, no one really cares about the teachings
>most people there just to socialize/hang out with other upper class wasp-types
>join army
>churches in army are too real to be fun
>now just sit quietly in room and shit post on 4chan
>>2787493
I left the catholic church because Christianity makes absolutely no sense to me, plus I hated to pay extra taxes. Happy non-rel now.
I have been reading a lot of articles on geopolitics lately, especially those on Russia. First, they are all from Anglo-American world and they state that Russian demographic situation is simply fucked up. Is there some truth to these claims? If Russian demographic situation is very bleak, that what can we say about other Europeans? They have even worse fertility rates.
>>2786704
Russian birth rates actually just exceeded death rates a year ago or so. The situation just reversed.
People who exploit the demographic decline of western europe as a pretext for mass immigration are evil globalists.
Israel has a very pro-jewish natalist policy, and they average 3 children per women.
>>2786723
Russian birth rate is indeed going up but it's all the muslims breeding, not native Russians.
>>2786704
>they state that Russian demographic situation is simply fucked up
That's 100% true. As a Russian, I can assure you that our current demographic crisis is one of the worst ones ever. Our birthrates are going up slowly but tha is mostly because of migrants. Ethnic Russians are having 1-2 childern max. I can't speak for other European countries though.
What's a more logical historical belief, Muhammad was a child rapist and girls hit puberty at 9 or the concept of age-of-consent and purity were different at some point in some cultures between 650-2017 so when discribing Abu Bakr's daughter he married to Muhammad as "pure and definitely a virgin"?
>>2782809
Vestigial cultural norm obviously. Every man likes fresh meat, this has always been. Koran is just some feudalistic mumbo jumbo about betrothing 9 year olds or whatever. No more bizarre than virgin Mary's.
>>2782821
>Every man likes fresh meat, this has always been
Nobody wants to fuck a 9 year old. If you do I would never want myself or anyone else within 500 feet of you
>>2782831
Um, no, sweetie, quite a few wouldn't mind that, especially considering the fact that literally everyone wants to fuck 12-13-year-olds, but have to pretend they don't.
Is democracy a meme?
Is one master chef better than a hundred mediocre ones?
you obviously havent lived under a dictatorship
>>2786705
Not OP but I have (ex-Soviet block), it kept shit in order. Have you?
>>2786697
Name ONE good dictator who didn't oppress his own people, didn't bring them into war, or didn't fuck over their economy
How do I do it? I wish to be patrician.
What kind of Nobleman? Is there any specific culture or country you want?
>>2785195
I hate you for bumping this silly thread.
>>2785201
It could be fun anon let's see it play out
>>2782763
Pic related is the first step
why when people want to call something particularly ruthless and violent they say it's "medieval", as if Middle Ages were particularly violent, while the worst atrocities in history started with the beginning of the modern age? (genocidal colonization of America, slavery etc)
Because "how good" a time period was is based upon the general quality of life for white europeans at that time.
Seeing as until you reach quite a long distance east nowhere else was relevant or significant until Europe showed up.
Medievil europe sucked for the average fella.
>>2782740
Eh...it's nuanced
Medieval times were extremely violent on an everyday level: like worse than Detroit, 70's New York, Compton, or the South Side of Chicago. Like holy shit casual violence, rape, and murder.
But in terms of wholesale slaughters, purges, genocides, and massacres? The modern age is worse.
>>2783320
this
modern period is suffering for everyone else, while middle ages can be a problem for you personally.
How do people in cities avoid going crazy and killing each other? The human mind is not designed to be a part of communities that large. It can't cope, it can't function properly. You stop seeing other people as individuals.
We clearly can, seeing as we do live in settlements larger than hundreds of people for thousands of years.
>>2785765
People do start killing each other, but these people get shot by the police.
>>2785765
Trust me, they don't.
What the fuck was his problem?
>>2782711
He got some nerve
>>2782711
He was somewhat arrogant, didn't like to get his hands dirty in politking and preferred to use the pen. Had no patience for idiots and was very brusque and blunt.
>>2782711
Everyone has a plan for global revolution, until they get an ice pick to the face
Just pointing it out.
>>2782643
Egypt was ruled by Europeans for centuries. Greeks, romans, english, ect.
>>2782643
Im pretty sure egyptians own themselves at this point.