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You know what? Fuck Sam Harris, the Church Fathers, based on their own understanding of things at the time, were right.

To them, heresy was EXTREMELY dangerous, because as far as they knew you had to believe exactly the right things to get to Heaven. If you didn't, when you died you might go to Purgatory, but it was much more likely that you would go to Hell, and suffer eternally in a void deprived of God's presence. Hell was the worst possible fate, and believing heresy was a sure-fire way to go there.

So under that set of circumstances, with that set of beliefs, why wouldn't you deal with heretics extremely harshly? They're the equivalent of poisoners, of mass murderers. The damage they can do, the eternal suffering their teachings can visit on innocent souls, is too great for them to be allowed to persist. Sure, you have to give them a chance to recant, but if they won't better to kill one soul than condemn thousands to Hellfire through inaction.

>religion is evil because religious people justified torture of minorities with religion
>scientism isn't evil even though it managed to justify worldwide persecution of people who didn't want vaccinations for decades and still going

"It's not fascism when WE do it"

>>510432
>To them, heresy was EXTREMELY dangerous, because as far as they knew you had to believe exactly the right things to get to Heaven.
>They're the equivalent of poisoners, of mass murderers. The damage they can do, the eternal suffering their teachings can visit on innocent souls, is too great for them to be allowed to persist.
So what has changed between then and now?

I found it interesting that a few others were found dead in Australia with the book near them. The brother of the opposition leader in Singapore was also found killed with the Talmud Shud.

I'll help

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

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>>508836
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Masks_Case

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Nothing

The dick

>>508041
Ourselves

Cause they look cool. I think it was the French Adrian helmet that offered the best protection. Brit helmet was shit tier.

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>>506007
Because they based them off the medieval sallet helmets

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>>506060
While the Brits based theirs off the their kettle hats

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>>501773

>>501773
this is but the beginning

>>501773
Mythology is pretty much religious stories. So no.

Not to mention a lot of polytheistic religions survive today like Chinese Folk, Shintoism, and Hinduism.

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Marcus Cassius Scaeva

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>>483369
Funnily enough, he was on my top 5 and for years he occupied the top spot.

His actions against Pompey's legions still leave me in awe every time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Terrail,_seigneur_de_Bayard
>At the Battle of Garigliano he single-handedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service

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>>473587

Here's good read number one. Blankenship goes into how Jihad and dhimmitude was one of main things driving the Ummayad economy. By making it hard for non-muslims to convert (thereby ensuring they had a steady revenue from the dhimmi tax) they unwittingly set the stage for their own demise.

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>>473630
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLF4pO3QgQ

Many of Professor Blankenship's lectures are also available on youtube like this one about whether or not the Quran was edited.

I'm kind of drunk so I'm gonna confess, even as someone who hates muslim apologists and thinks islamophobia is a word only used by faggots and pussies, I really fuck with the best Islam has to offer and I wish more muslims were badass muslim philosophers like Al-kindi or mystics like the sufis.

there's something about a noble, dignified, god-fearing arabian/desert civilization that's always tickled my fancy. fucking get it together already you mooks

>>511974
Teuton wankery is a Germanophiliac meme.
>Was there any non shit knight order anyway?
Hospitaller?

>>511974
The paladins of the order of St. george

They were failures, but the Pollack / Lithuanian / Russian view of them as pure evil is the same magnitude of idiocy.

>>510521
Philosophy is an artform for those who don't do any actually productive work in the ivory tower

>>510560
you are an idiot.

Most people don't know what philosophy actually is. Thanks Dawkins and other new atheists who simply dismiss it so they don't have to have actual arguments.

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>>510569
>you are an idiot.

lol no

Some of their theories are interesting to look at from a catholic perspective (old and new testament gods are different beings) but a lot of it is horseshit

Most of it seems to be a case of inventing history and applying later philosophy to Christ.
Do we have any historical data that supports the gnostic version of events?

Well, average life expectancy is about twice what it was beforehand, the proportion of society that can read has gone up by at least 5 times, and I can shitpost on 4chan instead of subsistence farming.

You tell me.

>>514265

/thread

>fuedalism
>cant vote
>be serf
>punished like slave

>industrial
>can vote
>be citizen
>enslaved with money

Protect people from other people's coercion

The way I've always seen it is that the purpose of a democracy is to prevent an autocracy, and the purpose of an autocracy is the glory of the king.

>>513833
Extract wealth from the people.

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>>512562
>Why do Americans consistently frame their enemies as unthinking, single minded fanatics with no common sense or instinct of self-preservation?
>Frames Americans as unthinking and single minded

How we portray our enemies is different than how we actually fight them. That's why we'll call them retarded goat fuckers but sit down with different small tribes to try to understand what they want out of a ruling government and how we can help them achieve their goals and ours.

>>512575
Treating Islamic radicals as rational actors pursuing coherent geopolitical aims will get you denounced as a terrorist sympathizer in American public discourse.

I would, but there would be no point since you're not real anyway.

Pretty sure God disproves solipsism, and I experience him as intimately as I experience I.

>>511648
That doesn't prove you exist.

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No.

>>507349
>no wars in the early ages of the world
shiggydiggy

>>507365
Care to elaborate?

>>507377
There weren't though.