(July 2, 2010 at 4:56 pm)rjh4 Wrote:(July 2, 2010 at 3:07 pm)chasm Wrote: It doesn't have to be "new news" to be discussed.
True. I was not trying to suppress discussion or anything else. I reread my post, however, and see how it could be interpreted as such. Apologies for that, Chasm.
(July 2, 2010 at 4:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:I would say borrowed.
"Borrowed" is when you ask someone and have an intention of giving it back.
"Steal" is when you take things without permission and kill anyone who gets in your way.
I wonder which method was more popular with xtian thugs?
Wow!! You took things like Christians choosing to celebrate the birth of Jesus on 12/25, pine trees, and certain things we do at Easter...and this leads to taking "things without permission and kill anyone who gets in your way". So Christians had to kill someone so they could celebrate Christmas on 12/25? Or somehow Christians needed someone's permission to use pine trees in their celebration? Did the first Christian's to use pine trees to celebrate Christmas steal them from their pagan neighbors? Come on, Min!
It's so much deeper than that.
They used the power of the state to burn the libraries, steal property and kill people into believing jesus bullshit. Surely, even YOU can't believe that people wee moved to become xtians because they believed the fucking story? Even the ancients weren't that stupid.
http://www.visualstatistics.net/045%20Lo...mation.htm
Quote:The alienation of the European people from their native cultures was accelerated during the times of Charlemagne and presaged what happened to the native people of the Americas and their indigenous cultures following the voyages of Columbus. Charlemagne's crusade against 'heathens' took place in the course of his Thirty Years' War (774-804) during which most of the indigenous cultures of Europe disappeared. The violence and atrocities of Charlemagne's Thirty Years' War include the executions of thousands who refused to convert to Christianity and resulted in deaths of about a half and in some regions close to two thirds of the pre-war population. During Charlemagne's Thirty Years' War, people who refused to be converted were executed. These executions took place in recurring waves, reaching its peak in 782 when Charlemagne executed in a single day over 4,000 Saxons who refused to convert to Christianity.
Your religion was advanced by murder.
