Inb4 they were all bad
they were all bad
Best Antichrist of all time ?
I think the current Antichrist is pretty hilarious, he's a Jesuit Marxist.
But the best Antichrist has to be the previous one, he looked very evil like the emperor from Star Wars.
>>559262
>the emperor from star wars
That's Sheev you fuck
Tell me everything you want to share about cold war, bonus point for the 1953-1962 period. Some infograph would be awesome too
>>559174
lel
Countless countries were thrown into pointless civil wars and suffered under insular regimes for decades, people today still believe giving up everything to a "people's republic" is the way to go.
I'd say communism was a pretty good meme.
how did ancient societies deal with what is now known as cancer?
1 Corinthians 14:34
They didn't have cancer.
Cancer is common now because people eat shitty foods and lack vitamins.
They died from it.
>be Poles
>save Europe from islam in 1683
>century later get partitioned by the ones you saved
>get genocided by them in WW2
>Hitler claims Islam is superior to Catholicism
>2015-2016 Europe reforms to Islam
>Christianity is no longer tolerated
Are Poles the biggest cucks in history?
>2015-2016 Europe reforms to Islam
>Christianity is no longer tolerated
source
>>559101
literally latest chimp out in Germany.
german women getting raped and german media claiming that nothing happened and islam is not at fault.
>>559097
>viewing eastern European history solely through the binary lens of Christianity v. Islam rather than acknowledging the complex ethnic, social, and economic factors which have always played a role in that particular corner of the world
Tell me about Greece in WW2
just anything really, I'm curious about them
>>558859
They were a nation with old equipment and few resources, but chockful of experienced veterans who knew exactly how to fight in their country and took all the advantages of the situation in a very admirable way. They also had a lot of brit resource support, but really they should have committed men if they wanted to help. As it was, the intervention was a total waste of effort for the brits, so much that they even had to spawn the propaganda meme "we slowed down the invasion of Russia" which has no historical basis whatsoever, since the delay had to do with eastern european infrastructure and not the necessity to commit resources to other fronts.
On the italian side of the situation, you have a bunch of mostly untrained and badly equipped conscripts sent to die in the hills without a real invasion plan, because like most italian offensives in ww2, the decision to invade Greece was just a panicked attempt at keeping a shred of a check to german expansionism rather than a calculated effort at enlarging Italy, so it's not surprising that it ended in shit.
Spearmen in hills can take down helicopters.
>These incarnate Devils laid waste and desolate Four Hundred miles of most Fertile Land, containing vast and wonderful Provinces, most spatious and large Valleys surrounded with Hills, forty Miles in Length, and many Towns richly abounding in Gold and Silver. I judge that they by new invented and unusual Torments ruinated four or five Millions of Souls and sent them all to Hell.
>At their Entry into a certain Village, they were welcomed with great Joy and Exultation: The Spaniards departing thence, a Captain related to the Superior Tyrant returned thither to rob this People, and pierced their King through with a Lance, of which Wound he dyed upon the Spot, and committed several other Cruelties into the bargain.
>The Chief Tyrant caused many Indians (above Two Hundred as 'tis noised abroad) whom he summoned to appear before him out of another town, or else, who came voluntarily to pay their Respects to him, to have their Noses and Lips to the very Beard, cut off; and thus in this grievous and wretched Condition, the Blood gushing out of their Wounds, returned them back, to give an Infallible Testimony of the Works and Miracles wrought by these Preachers and Ministers baptized in the Catholic Faith.
>I also affirm that I saw with these Eyes of mine the Spaniards for no other reason, but only to gratify their bloody mindedness, cut off the Hands, Noses, and Ears, both of Indians and Indianesses, and that in so many places and parts, that it would be too prolix and tedious to relate them. Nay, I have seen the Spaniards let loose their Dogs upon the Indians to bait and tear them in pieces, and such a Number of Villages burnt by them as cannot well be discovered: Farther this is a certain Truth, that they snatched Babes from the Mothers Embraces, and taking hold of their Arms threw them away as far as they would from them. They committed many other Cruelties, which shook me with Terror at the very sight of them.
>>558838
> Creates a Christianity thread, copy pasta's text about the Spanish
>>559000
I'm pretty sure OP's quote was from a priest.
What's your favorite Bible verse and why?
What's your favorite book of the Bible?
Have you had any revelations or epiphanies about Christianity lately? Please share.
Do you speak Russian?
If no, why not?
>>558837
I'm not Russian, i don't need to learn russian.
What a stupid thread is that?
>>558837
I'm learning Ukrainian
I speak a slavic language, and I've been thinking about attempting it. But it's honestly annoying, bunch of same words with different meanings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LsrkWDCvxg
How does this make you feel /his/?
Found this gem in my youtube recomendations.
Don't know much about Alexander the Great, but Green exaggerates a bit on the influence of the technology at the time. Having the right leader at the right time is damn important, the tec is as well of course, but imo both are what contributed to the success of the Macedonians and they shouldn't be separated.
>>558579
Alexander and Frederick are both examples of fuccbois who took their father's hard drilled army for a walk and became famous because of it.
>>558907
>implying marching an army from macedonia to india in the BCE is just a walk
Pls.
What were common forms of entertainment in the Soviet Union?
drinking yourself to death and hoping to wake up in different place
squatting with the mates
>you will never be as perfect as Christ
Why even bother?
>>558391
That's not the point?
>>558391
Dude was a failed messiah, like a bunch of other Jews before him and after him.
>you will never be a country hick that takes up a life of begging for food and claiming to be a god only for the judean authorities to call your bluff and execute me in the most horrific fashion imaginable
What do atheists think of Jesus? I can totally understand understand hating his followers, a lot of terrible things were done in his name, but surely no one dislikes the actual dude, do they?
>>558286
Never met him desu senpai
>>558286
He seems bro tier, only a few disagreements with some points, i'd think everyone should have this with anyone though.
He was a pretty cool guy
I'd smoke a bowl with him and Buddha
Why did no Communist revolution happen in Germany, as Marx and other thinkers have specifically predicted?
Because stalin was retarded and would rather sabotage the weimar republic and allow nazis to take control over having a competing self called socialist state.
>>558105
Communism only got popular where people were serfs
>>558105
>Why did no Communist revolution happen in Germany, as Marx and other thinkers have specifically predicted?
>Rosa Luxemburg
Where did the "Jews controlled the slave trade" /pol/ meme come from?
>>558057
Probably in the South. At first Jews were proportionally over represented in the formation of the trade but eventually their influence waned considerably
>>558057
It's partially true.
You can find numerous jewish slave traders forming relatively big proportion of overall slave traders "population" when compared to their overall population compared to Europe's population.
Except you can also find similar proportions when you look at soap merchants or limber merchants. Any merchants in fact.
>>558070
Not after 1750 really. Jews were involved in the Spanish and Portuguese slave trade because they went to their American colonies following the inquisition. Once the Brits and Dutch came along, Jewish influence was pretty irrelevant.
How did Christianity lose its spirituality?
Today we have mega churches complete with rock bands. Street preachers who use Christianity as a means to push their own personal and political agenda. People believe that churches are the temples of God, instead of the human body as they used to believe. People today believe the Bible, a book written over thousands of years by different people using different languages is the "word of God" instead of believing that Jesus is the word of God as many Catholics still do today.
Early Christianity was replete with various philosophical and Gnostic ideas possibly influenced by various other religions including Buddhism, Hinduism. It was well understood by Early Christians that there were numerous "mysteries" which Jesus was the key to unlocking, but today Jesus is treated more as a santa claus figure but the human condition is seen as disgusting, immoral and even evil.
>>558055
That's not what Jesus looked like.
This is what Jesus looked like.
I usually don't like simplistic, reductionist explanations for social phenomena, but in this insurance it's true - it all boils down to the Protestant Reformation.
While Catholicism was arguably already more legalistic and life-affirming than its eastern counterparts, it still had a strong mystical tradition and the official dogma was that God was something to be yearned for, not some happy force in the sky that granted all your wishes.
When the Reformation came about however, the floodgates were opened to far more materialist interpretations of the Bible and suddenly spirituality became about finding confirmation for your actions instead of the intense inner struggle it's meant to be, and as a result after several centuries of theological refinement you get a situation where Jesus is supposed to make you "feel good" rather than be used as the guide for subtle spiritual growth that he is. This in turn influenced the rise of secularism and the decline of church authority on moral matters, leaving us in the situation we have today.
It's a shame, really, genuine Christian spirituality looks nothing like the simplistic legal doctrine that is so readily destroyed by fedora tippers, and had it remained it's mystical elements then a lot more fence-sitters today would be inclined to try it out, rather than reject it on conditions that don't even fully reflect the faith.
If anyone is interested in further research for this phenomenon and answers as to how to practice their own spiritual life, I suggest looking into Pastor Anderson, Barnabas Powell, and reading books on Christian Hermiticism.
satan obviously walks among the believers
Historically was the horn of africa more involved with Arabia or the rest of Africa?
The Horn was always an important middleman between India and the Mediterranean as well as traders all along the African coast.
>>558038
[desire to know more intensifies]
>>558043
Unfortunately pretty much nothing is known about pre-Islamic (aka Swahili) East Africa other than some Greek records saying "oh yeah sometimes we sail down there to trade stuff, here's a list of good cities to stop at".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azania
There's also "Cyeneum" mentioned which would be around South Sudan today, but I haven't been able to find much of anything at all about it, at least nothing that exists online.
The only real information on these places goes back to when Islam spread out there, but I don't know if it's genuinely because of lack of records, or just that very little of it exists online in English.