>When Christianity became a thing, in the first and second century AD, it spread peacefully
>Jesus was a man who always promoted peace (to the point of being called a cuck by some on this website)
>in a matter of centuries, Christianity had peacefully spread through half of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
>The only real case of Christianity being spread by the sword in Europe is the Teutonic order, and this is millennia after the time of Jesus, in an isolated area, that was as much men seeking power through military conquest.
>At the time of the Crusades, most of the populace was illiterate and did not have a grasp of the New Testament, and the case that the crusades were (at least initially) a defensive strike is extremely compelling.
>the later colonization of the world was primarily driven by mercantilism, and wealth, justified by a view of bringing civilization to lesser races. Religion was an afterthought. It is akin to saying Apple or Microsoft using China to build there shit is due to Christianity. By that time, society had advanced enough where economic factors were the main driving force, not religion.
Therefore, it can be said that the religion of Christianity, as defined by the New Testament, is inherently a mostly peaceful one, and the cases where Christians acted in a violent matter can be attributed to human factors.
>Islam at the very start, spread by the Sword. Muhammad himself conquered the Saudi Arabian Coasts, and when he died, his religious followers, in the name of Islam, invaded and conquered the Christian Byzantines, taking over all of the Mid-East and North Africa, and into Spanish Europe in mere decades. Contrast the conquering Islamic armies, who were literally the contemporaries of Muhammad, with that of Paul and the contemporaries of Christ, and the early Church who spread peacefully.
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>>1418516
>Islamic armies reached all the way into central France before being beaten back. Europe, India, South East Asian, were all threatened with invasion and subjugation
>Timur who literally called himself the "sword of Islam" killed an estimated 5% of the worlds population at the time, and his empire went on to invade India and spread Islam by the sword there.
>Fact: Islam has mostly been spread by the sword; Christianity has mostly spread naturally.
It can be said that the Religion of Islam, as defined by the Quran and Muhammad, has an inherent violent nature to it, as evidenced by its actions from its inception, and that the violent actions of its followers can reasonably be attributed to the religion itself, rather than human attributes
I am an atheist. I think Christianity is pretty shitty, and if i had to be religious id pick an east asian one. But in comparison to Islam, Christianity is the clear winner, no contest. There is no good reason to support Islam.
FACT: If Islam never happened, and Muhammad died as a baby, the Byzantines would never have been invaded as they were, and the middle east would still be Christian to this day, perhaps even still Byzantine. The World would never have this great divide and conflict that exists today. This is entirely the fault of Islam.
>Christianity spread peacefully
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>>1418543
In its first couple of hundred years, yes, absolutely.
Wait, after Napoléon's defeat at Leipzig the coalition offered him an extremely generous peace offer that would create a France in his """natural borders""". And Nappy the retard refused because he thought he could get more?? How can anyone claim that he just wanted to defend France when he didn't take the opportunity of such a favorable peace settlement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_proposals
>>1414487
>And Nappy the retard refused
Lad, according to your own article
>delayed too long and lost the opportunity
>>1414491
And why did he delay? Because he thought he would win the war and get an even greater France. When the tides turned he wanted to come back at the offer which was obvioiusly refused.
The moment Napoleon agreed he would have sustained a serious blow to his reputation.
So /his/, this book is required reading for my university this summer. I've made it about a third of the way through the book, and I came across this:
>"...Mansa Musa of Mali was black, and Shabaka of Egypt was black, and Yaa Asantewaa of Ashanti was black—"
Are any of these statements true? Or is this just hardcore Wewuzism? I don't know enough about those figures to have any idea, and Google gave me some competing information.
>>1412352
Mansa Musa was definitely black. I've never heard of the other two. Either way
>required summer reading for uni if you're not taking summer classes
What fucking shit show of a uni do you go to?
Whaddya guys think of his The Case For Reparations essay?
>>1412421
Read it. It was full retard wewuz.
>"In the eyes of the Italians we Germans are merely low Teutonic swine. They exploit us like charlatans and suck the country to the marrow. Wake up Germany!"
What did he mean by this? Was Luther actually a nationalist leader rather than a religious one?
>>1421534
He was for "common man". He felt that people should have the right to read the bible and interpret it, rather than have edicts handed down from a corrupt intellectual elite. I "guess" you could call it nationalism, if you "nation" is a mass of plebians and other simple folk under oppression by foreign mandate.
>>1421572
Not quite. He still supported the nobles right to rule the peasantry, hence his support for their brutal beat down of the German peasant rebellion.
I just think he hated italians
Who doesn't though
Not that germans aren't actually low teutonic swines too
I'm the best philosopher on this board.
I will entertain any and all philosophy related questions you have with the correct answers. You'll never need to read another wikipedia article on a philosopher again if you read this thread.
Come one come all, I shall enlighten you.
>>1421408
Is Constantine a boy, or a girl?
What is best in life?
>>1421408
>I'm the best retard on this board
Okay
Are any of you actually professionals working within the humanities fields as academics or otherwise? If so what do you do? And why do you come here?
I'm starting my PhD in Classics this fall. I come for the memes
>>1405115
I imagine that professionals come into contact with other professionals and do not see the need to discuss it with weirdos on an Siberian image-based bullitin board.
The only way I can see actual professionals here is that they enjoy sharing their knowledge but I can imagine a place like r/historians is better for that. This board must be frustrating for them.
But those are just my ideas.
>>1405257
But perhaps some professionals need to let off steam and are into shitposting?
Do you want to talk about fascist Italy?
el italiANO
No? I don't see why anyone would want to bother, unless they're bored and want to have a pop-history circlejerk about how much they sucked militarily.
mussolini was a retarded faggot
Why do you guys hate him so much?
>>1423455
i dont
>>1423455
I'm sorry, do you have any arguments to support that statement?
i disagree with his ideology
Your in the German High Command, and this guy slaps your 6th army on the ass. What do you do?
Zhukov wasn't in command during Uranus; he was up north, trying to make Mars work.
His command in that theater was in the summer, while they were in the defensive.
>>1423175
*teleports behind you*
*Shoots you with superior tiger tank*
Heh... nothing personal untermemuch
*gas vans away*
Play another round of Kharkov chicken with Ivan.
Nice memes /pol/ faggots have about "Kek" the "Egyptian God of Interwebz" BS. On the other hand at least they're turning their heads eyes and ears towards something important far greater and larger than life. Not all, but few.
The Gods of Egypt come from a series of "Earth Gods" which are a union that protect earth with light from the forces of Darkness. They're effective and can significantly enhance your life. They need to be respected, praised and bowed to. They're not dictators and understand the fickle state of human consciousness.
Kek etc is just a first stage of the Egyptian Gods to bring virgin neckbeard eyes and ears to the ancient religion of Earth.
The global consciousness movement started in 2012 and as the quarter ends we'll see the next quarter bringing more and more belivers in the true Gods of Earth.
Pro tip; The Compassionate eye of Horus protects the one needed protection. Call out to it and watch it change your entire life. Submit your being to the Gods of Earth and they'll bless you with the right path to eternity.
Kek is real
>>1423132
Indeed.
Although discussing theological implications of identity is definitely humanities. If you want to discuss polytheism, research "Greek enthusiasm" and "tantric meditation," the implications of this on identity are quite interesting.
Kek is just ironic shitposting based on a coincidence.
Post people who ruined everything, and watch other anons defend them
>>1422957
he had a big dick
>largest ponzi scheme money sink the world has ever known
Reminder that lolbergtarianism was invented to help expedite a communist revolution.
What do you know about the Rothschild dynasty?
>>1422540
memes
they r the illuminate!! xD time to occupy Wall Street.
In all seriousness though, they are a way for people to realise that there are people that are elites. I don't mean, "wealthy", I mean the power to buy out entire countries. Crassus and Caesar level wealth and influence. This should alarm sensible people.
A lot of conjecture about them being the shadowy masters of banking.
What's the fate of gentiles according to Judaism?
>>1422448
conversion and second tier citizenship, otherwise death by blood libel
>>1422448
If you live a good life, you go to the afterlife. Nobody knows what the afterlife is like, because how could we? If you're not a Jew, that's fine.
If you life an evil life, you will be judged by G-d and accordingly punished. Nobody knows how this happens. This is true of evil Jews and evil gentiles.
The question is when does this afterlife begin? Probably immediately, but some scholars traditionally believed it would not be until the coming of the Messiah.
Is one Jew thread not enough for you?
Can we amalgamate our philosophical resources and contents (.pdfs, infographs) into a singular thread?
I apologize; I do not have any such contents to start the thread as I lost my laptop recently.
Appreciate some general historical resources and lists in there too
I am namely interested in the publishings of Spinoza.
Here is a Heidegger's "Basic Writings: from Being & Time to The Task of Thinking"
http://projectlamar.com/media/Heidegger.pdf
Here are some decent contemporary journals:
http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojpp/
Do angels literally exist in Judaism?
Why does the Jewish afterlife look like?
>Why does the Jewish afterlife look like?
There isn't one.
>>1422423
dumb goy
http://www.jewfaq.org/m/olamhaba.htm
>>1422392
>Why does the Jewish afterlife look like?
A bank.