If there is a God, then what created God? Religious people always say that "Nothing can't come from nothing" but always neglect to mention that if there is a God, God must have been created from nothing.
>>2899006
The typical response is that God has always existed, he was never created.
heres my question
So when the "rapture" happens the world as we know it will end and all will be judged for their sins, and evil will be defeated etc
What was the point of this middle period? Why bother having thousands of years of human sin and evil if the whole thing ends with our world no longer existing? I'm probably not coming off as intelligent, but does anyone know what I'm trying to say here?
>>2899613
>looking for coherency in an incomplete system like Protestantism
Find a more sound metaphysical doctrine like Gnosticism then we'll talk.
There were no black crusad-
>>2898564
/pol/ BTFO
>>2898570
if anything this is supports /pol/ because it fights the idea that the crusades are yet another evil act the evil white man has comitted against the rest of the world.
Alexios I Komnenos
> Inherited a collapsing empire and faced constant warfare during his reign against both the Seljuk Turks in Asia Minor and the Normans in the western Balkans
>Was able to curb the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery
>His appeals to Western Europe for help against the Turks were also the catalyst that likely contributed to the convoking of the Crusades
Name a more based byzantine emperor
>>2898111
Crusades destroyed byzantine. Good job alexios for starting the tradition.
>>2898148
>1st crusade consolidated central anotalia under byzantine rule
>4th crusade destroyed the byzantines
but they're both exactly the same thing because they're "crusades" right?
>>2898157
Anatolia was already lost. After Justianan byzantine went into permanent defense. They lost the game at that moment. You lose the game the moment where your whole war policy is hide behind walls and cry.
Has there every been an empire that handed out full citizenship like candy, and thrived?
The Roman Empire
The United States
>>2897101
That sounds like such a liberal question. But to answer it to the best of my ability and historical knowledge: no.
>>2897101
Rome sorta did and it wasn't such a thriving thing but more of a "we are desperate to keep the empire alive" and it worked for a little while.
The US uses to give it out in batches to people and let them integrate slowly. Now we just let in hundreds of thousands if not a million a year thinking nothing will go wrong.
Leave Wellington to me.
>>2896359
L'Empereur a cute!!! A CUTE!!!
>tfw Napoleon was just an Italian amongst REEEing beta uprising Frogs and not a Griffith-like figure
now Wellington's witticism "I've seen their backs before" has a whole new meaning~
Without mentioning Jews or suicide, name at least one thing that Hitler did right.
>>2894879
Vetoing Hadler and Brautisch in favor of the Manstein Plan was a smart move operationally.
he at least killed himself after he killed all them jews
>>2894879
killing ann frank so we would end up masturbating to her 70 years later
Why does /pol/ delude themselves with that Christianity is a white nationalist warrior religion when its pretty passive and non-racist?
>>2893183
Because /pol/ has never, even once, cared about actual truth values. See their continued obsession with the idea that a pizza parlor in DC is a front for a massive international cabal of pedophiles and that Hillary Clinton personally kills and eats children. Feels over facts.
>>2893183
Because they're not interested in Christian living or the life of churches, they're interested in identity and symbolism, so they view Catholicism in particular as a symbol of European patriarchal tradition.
>>2893350
T. Sneaky jew backstabbing leftypol double agent
When did you start believing in God again?
Are unironic sperge lords the Nietzschean ubermenschen of OUR time?
I think you mean gods in which case, when I raided Christcuck monasteries and took all their shit
where did you find this pic of me
Africans Americans are partly descendants from Mandenka people.
The Mandenka were the rulers of the Mali Empire.
So the ancestors of African Americans were REALLY kings, shamans and warriors.
>>2904832
Of course. Anyone who knows anything about African history besides "dude mudhuts lmao" won't argue with you.
>>2904844
That meme only works when the topic is Egypt, and I'm not black anyway.
It's obvious that the IQ of the contemporary people and those from the Middle Ages is the same. But how could you then explain why they engaged in such nonsensical behaviour like animal trials? Does humanity acquire more common sense with time because of the development of ideas and collective learning? Which modern customs will look barbarian in the future?
>>2904248
wow they were progressive as fuck in the medieval ages
>>2904248
It's because they didn't have many other forms of entertainment. It was all just banter, lad.
>>2904248
>It's obvious that the IQ of the contemporary people and those from the Middle Ages is the same
Wrong.
Red pill me on the Bolsheviks.
Who the fuck are these guys? Did they really think they can revolutionize the world and achieve world domination? What the hell were they smoking?
>>2904101
>Who the fuck are these guys??
Jews
>>2904142
Not all of them.
>>2904165
Crypto-Jews
*blocks your path*
*trickles down*
It would be crazy if America had two senile plutocratic celebrity presidents in 30 years!
Out of my way bad president!!
If we take Christianity to its logical conclusion
their was no need for Jesus
if God is all powerful, omnipotent etc. couldn't he of just said "Voila', you are all saved now" in an instant
what was the need for Jesus?
>>2903262
it's a mystery
world is more complicated that you or any tiny human mind would imagine
deal with it
>>2903262
Jesus is the final revelation, God creating a human persona to understand the human condition
>>2903301
I'm agnostic and this actually makes sense
How could Christianity not be correct if over 2 billion people practice it? Do atheists honestly believe that many people just made a mistake?
How could Islam not be correct if over 1.8 billion people practice it? Do atheists honestly believe that many people just made a mistake?
>>2902758
>arabs and southeast asians
>people
>>2902761
>implying Christianity isn't a middle eastern religion too
Let alone the fact is dying in most first world countries.
Has there ever been a more dominant race than the Anglos?
Romans/Italians
>>2902746
romans/italians are anglos