RE: Is there another motivation for christian belief?
September 19, 2016 at 8:10 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2016 at 8:12 pm by SenpaiNoticeMeYouBlindShmuck.)
Edit: Too slow! It was intended towards Huggy74.
For a similar reason the American's rose up against their British leigelords perhaps? It got to a stage where the former had just had enough of the latter's bullshit and thought the possibility of death was more dignified and preferable to putting up with the status quo. Desperation, which is closely and intimately linked to fear. What would happen if they didn't...
Considering both of these factions held fairly similar beliefs the overall shift at the time between theologies wasn't all that dramatic outside of the weird pseudo-socialist orgiastic Anabaptist city states that didn't really last.
Considering too what had happened do you suppose had one side triumphed decisively across Europe the other would have allowed the defeated foe to survive? We'd likely have seen some fairly savage acts of brutality considering both what the forefathers of Protestant "True Bible Believers" and the Inquisition both proved they could come up with once given power had a balance between borders of the emerging nation states slowly not come into play.
Perhaps in that case the fear was less of what supernatural beings from another world would do to you for causing them reasons to be displeased (although that still had a role, one had an obligation to fight for or against the reformation otherwise one might be damned for denying the truth) but more what the other side would do to you, your friends and family if they beat you.
See the fate of Hypatia and the other North African Pagans once Christians came to pre-eminence and what happened to the Meccan Pagans once Muhammad gained control of Medina for similar examples. Both introduced a reign of theocratic terror in their respective domains, and used fear to make average joe toe the party line or else.
For a similar reason the American's rose up against their British leigelords perhaps? It got to a stage where the former had just had enough of the latter's bullshit and thought the possibility of death was more dignified and preferable to putting up with the status quo. Desperation, which is closely and intimately linked to fear. What would happen if they didn't...
Considering both of these factions held fairly similar beliefs the overall shift at the time between theologies wasn't all that dramatic outside of the weird pseudo-socialist orgiastic Anabaptist city states that didn't really last.
Considering too what had happened do you suppose had one side triumphed decisively across Europe the other would have allowed the defeated foe to survive? We'd likely have seen some fairly savage acts of brutality considering both what the forefathers of Protestant "True Bible Believers" and the Inquisition both proved they could come up with once given power had a balance between borders of the emerging nation states slowly not come into play.
Perhaps in that case the fear was less of what supernatural beings from another world would do to you for causing them reasons to be displeased (although that still had a role, one had an obligation to fight for or against the reformation otherwise one might be damned for denying the truth) but more what the other side would do to you, your friends and family if they beat you.
See the fate of Hypatia and the other North African Pagans once Christians came to pre-eminence and what happened to the Meccan Pagans once Muhammad gained control of Medina for similar examples. Both introduced a reign of theocratic terror in their respective domains, and used fear to make average joe toe the party line or else.
