GreenLight7 said:
viocult said:
Communism is just a violent form of Christianity. If you believe it is easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle than a rich person to get into heaven, it is no great leap in ethics to have a view that a brotherhood of man can be established by destroying the upper class. Its shallow atheism is much the same as some that view the placebo effect as some form of faith healing (versus some test subjects being so agreeable that they tell the researchers what they want to hear).
Blacksmiths should be neutral: whether they are hammering swords into plowshares or plowshares into swords, they get paid either way.
Landed nobles with just one living adult child would prefer peace. Knights bachelors would see war as their chance to get land and want that. Knights bachelors that are the children of knights bachelors would have friends across all the nations (as their parent would move to the highest bidder) would be fine with peace, but international price of mercenaries would prevent them from staying in a peaceful kingdom for too long. Outlaw nobility (people displaced by the new hegemon in their nation) would want war just to volunteer for the opposition (I guess this won't be part of the diplomacy score, but it means as the invading army loses people from desertion and disease, reinforcements would be available).
Communism if form of Christianity?I hear such stupidity first in my life,i heard much,but such?
Communism is ideology,Chrisitanity is religion,religion is saint,sacred,holy. ideology-not.
Communism says that people can go to store buy what they needed,and go,without robing,stealing,or taking more.In Holy Bible there are examples of prophet,king,Bishop,who sin.If even prophet be,who sin,not do what God said,than what communism?
communism if form of Christianity,he,what,coomunism is not faith.They persecuted bishops,priests,believers,saints.
You have very successfully argued why religion should not be included in Mount & Blade, but this is the wrong thread
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Since you have never heard of North Korea (who are certainly unable to buy what they need in a store), you might not be too aware of communism as a religion (or Slavoj Zizek saying that Capitalism is a religion), but I'll make more plain the only difference I'll put between ideology and religion. Human beings are fully aware of the inevitability of their death (I'm plagarizing Ecclesiastics here) and the fact that when their brain rots that all their memories, good and bad, rot away with their brain. When a religion gives a person a way out of this overwhelming fear, people grab onto all the superstitions associated with it even if it is silly. As adherents spread, and some of this happens from children being born, one could be raised in an environment where you only interact with people that only have the same superstitious beliefs that you have. These beliefs become common sense (racism is an ideology that requires an insane amount of faith, and it helps if you don't have a member of the "other" "race" around to convince you how silly this belief is). Even Descartes trying to go back to the basics of "I think therefore I am" to deal the overwhelming ignorance we all are raised in, still arrived at assumptions those of us in the twenty-first century would not have arrived at (side note: I like Albert Einstein, but the amount of discoveries since his death, let alone since he publish the general and specific theories of relativity, means he is so much more in the dark then current scientists...but I suppose even science needs its prophets).
In Culture (hopefully, this example is less explosive than politics) , for a Christian writer (or a shallow atheist raised in a Christian society), a character arc is very important, because sin and redemption is a big part of the religion. Jewish writers could make a character like Jack Benny (who even stays 39) who remains the same so that audiences could guess his reactions to the various situations he encountered (because he is stingy, when encountering a robber: "Your money or your life...I said your money or your life." "I'm thinking it over." The audience laughed after the first life and after his response since they get to know the character very well), since redemption (I think it is called something else, but I am not Jewish) is something they do every Yom Kippur and is too "meh" to apply to literature.
Just as religion affects the template of literary works, it also affects one's worldview.
I am very confused by your "they" in your final sentence (I am even worse at pronouns, so I try not to use them except in first and second person). If "they" refers to Christians, obviously during the Protestant Revolution (and especially the Thirty Years War), both sides persecuted bishops, priest, believers, and saints (the First Crusaders slaughter of everyone in Jerusalem, Christian or otherwise, would also include people on this list, and can I just say "Ireland"). In the Russia revolutions (if "they" refers to communist), Bolshevik slaughtered Menshevik (and the favor was returned) with at least Trotsky changing sides (there was less of a difference in ideology between the two groups than many other "faiths", and mostly it was an interpretation of their prophets, Marx and Engels). I believe both sides attacked Anarchist, but only the victorious Bolsheviks had the power to persecute everyone else.
Don't feel you have to apologize to me because of the malice of your statement. A far worse moment was in my youth I sought to read Arnold Toynbee's Study of History. I got to his book on Religion (about 5000 pages in since it is a multi-volume work, but it has been a long time, so I hope that is hyperbole) and he came to the conclusion that though he was an atheist, he thought Christianity was the greatest religion ever. This guy, who was raised Christian and lived in a Christian society, thought he was making an intellectual leap through this decision, and I had wasted a month reading what he had to say. I have only recently ran across Slavoj Zizek on youtube and had to endure his compliment of Christianity, which is not a great intellectual leap for a communist to say (to be clear it is the ignorance of the intellectual that bothers me: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and my parents were great people, while being Christian was an important aspect of their character).
Hopefully this was long enough to address your concerns and short enough to not irritate others, but if I need to provide footnotes or Cliff's Notes let me know
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