(June 22, 2015 at 10:30 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:Quote:An entry for the year 782 in the Royal Frankish Annals records that, after Charlemagne lost two envoys, four counts, and around 20 nobles in battle with the Saxons, Charlemagne responded by massacring 4,500 rebelling Saxons near what is now Verden. Regarding this massacre, the entry reads:
When he heard this, the Lord King Charles rushed to the place with all the Franks that he could gather on short notice and advanced to where the Aller flows into the Weser. Then all the Saxons came together again, submitted to the authority of the Lord King, and surrendered the evildoers who were chiefly responsible for this revolt to be put to death—four thousand and five hundred of them. This sentence was carried out. Widukind was not among them since he had fled to Nordmannia. When he had finished this business, the Lord King returned to Francia.[1]
There was a rebellion.
Some of Charlemagne's homies were killed in the uprising.
They rebelled because they didn't want to convert to Catholicism but were being forced to, as the Chinese were being forced to assimilate into the Japanese Empire.
Whatever happened to turning the other cheek? Cherrypicking at it's finest
Quote:Charlemagne exacted revenge.
Nice bit of moral relativism there
Quote:I'm not convinced the comparison to the Japanese army is justified, but if you say so...
The only difference is Charlemange was Catholic and Hirohito was the leader of a rival religion; who interestingly himself also claimed to be the direct mouthpiece of God/Amaterasu Okami and infallibility. Only difference there is his religion is older than Catholicism by 663 years (taking 33AD as the starting date of Catholicism, which I know the Orthodox would whine about).
