The government is more or less forced to allow the KKK to exist because "muh free speech and assembly" and all that.
But why hasn't anyone just decided to shoot up a Klan rally? What reasonable jury would convict a man who kills Nazis in order to protect America?
Vigilantism is illegal because you're supposed to let the police and the courts take care of those things (muh due process) but in this case the government certainly is not going to do anything at all. The KKK is allowed to exist because the Constitution exists. Shouldn't American history be filled with vigilantes killing white supremacists in droves? After all, public opinion is anti-Klan, and who would raise a stink if someone murdered a bunch of Nazis in the woods in the middle of the night and the local municipality failed to properly investigate the incident? Nobody fucking likes Nazis.
>>722164
>What reasonable jury would convict a man who kills Nazis in order to protect America?
A jury that believed in the rule of law?
A jury of "their" peers?
>>722164
Because attacking them is giving them what they want: confrontation. Far better it is to inflict the greatest insult one can upon an enemy: to be ignored.
When did freedom of speech become a strictly right-wing/lolbertarian meme?
>Build some of the most magnificent religious monuments in the world.
>Create a sophisticated irrigation system across over 1,000 square kilometers to, in 1100, foster the world's largest urban area until the 1800s
>Remembered only for the big Rouge splooge
Why isn't Cambodian civilization touted more often for being as cool as it was? Can you guys tell me more about it?
>>722009
>not as well known / famous enough to get mocked / criticised
>not oppressed / primitive enough to get pity appreciation
tfw be south east asians
either way greeting from your far southern neighbour, indonesia :)
They never really had much impact on the world beyond Cambodia and its immediate neighbors, which is why it tends to be under-appreciated except as a tourist attraction.
Angkor really was one of the most impressive cities in the pre-modern world though, if not the most impressive of all. All we see now is the bare skeleton of the city and it's still incredible.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/disbelieve-it-or-not-ancient-history-suggests-that-atheism-is-as-natural-to-humans-as-religion
>Despite being written out of large parts of history, atheists thrived in the polytheistic societies of the ancient world – raising considerable doubts about whether humans really are “wired” for religion – a new study suggests.
>The claim is the central proposition of a new book by Tim Whitmarsh, Professor of Greek Culture and a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge. In it, he suggests that atheism – which is typically seen as a modern phenomenon – was not just common in ancient Greece and pre-Christian Rome, but probably flourished more in those societies than in most civilisations since.
>“We tend to see atheism as an idea that has only recently emerged in secular Western societies,” Whitmarsh said. “The rhetoric used to describe it is hyper-modern. In fact, early societies were far more capable than many since of containing atheism within the spectrum of what they considered normal.”
>The closest the Greeks got to a unifying sacred text were Homer’s epics, which offered no coherent moral vision of the gods, and indeed often portrayed them as immoral. Similarly, there was no specialised clergy telling people how to live: “The idea of a priest telling you what to do was alien to the Greek world,” Whitmarsh said.
>The age of ancient atheism ended, Whitmarsh suggests, because the polytheistic societies that generally tolerated it were replaced by monotheistic imperial forces that demanded an acceptance of one, “true” God.
Christcucks? Where are you?
>>721474
10 dollars that this guy is jewish (by race only of course)
>>721474
>written out of large parts of history
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Does /his/ have a coherent explanation for why Africa has simply underachieved in terms of culture and historical impact? At least sub-saharan Africa?
Not a /pol/ thread I swear, but I'm not incapable of accepting coherent 'racist' explanations.
>>721294
Lack of contact with Eurasia. Ideas flow from place to place which is how civilization spread out of the fertile crescent. Unfortunately for Sub Saharan Africa, they have been largely isolated until colonization with Islam only playing a pivotol role in some areas. The Horn of Africa did havr contact but not enough due to geography.
>>721294
Africa isn't a country
>>721294
Check the archive. It's like everyday we get this thread.
/his/
Was the "decolonization" of Africa a good idea? Didn't native Africans live better under European control?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonisation_of_Africa
>A hotel for white people went out of business when the white people left
Dear god, the humanity.
>>720515
What Tf is wrong with you you ass smoking retard?
>>720515
>Was the "decolonization" of Africa a good idea
Yes, however it was all the things that followed after the decolonization that ruined things.
Since this board (generally) ranks Taoism as the best religious belief can anyone convince me as to why this is the case?
I highly doubt anybody on this board has a solid grasp of Taoism.
>inb4 'i read the dao de jing and listened to some meme lecture by alan watts so this makes me qualified on complex ancient chinese religions'
>>720342
people don't know that much about Taoism.
Taoism in a nutshell: Don't cum. Fuck a lot of virgin girls. Eat a lot of peaches. Don't fucking cum! muh nature and shit. Gimme summa dat immortality, nigga. Do not freaking cum.
/his/
Why did the west let Mugabe destroy Rhoedesia?
>I wish we could bring back that country
How's /pol/ been? I haven't been there since I was in highschool.
>>720115
>If I don't like it I send it to /pol/
Go back to R-eddit faggot
>>720119
I was just asking an innocent question. No need to get defensive.
Reminder that being an atheist requires the same amount of faith as being a Christian.
>>719798
Do you have any evidence for that
>what is the burden of proof
>>719798
Agnosticism is the best desu
You can choose to believe or not believe, but you don't claim to know
Did foreign powers supported any side in the American Civil War, oficially or unofficially?
I'm especially interested to know towards what side the sympathy of UK, France, Spain and Mexico was.
>>719705
I heard Mexico was pissed because they wanted American aid against France or something during the time we were fighting each other. It was somewhat confusing why we'd want to kill each other instead of helping them remove baguette from new world.
The UK and France's governments were leaning toward the Confederacy but their population was pro Union.
The big supporter of the Union in Europe was Russia.
>>719750
Was there a real reason for that? I know Russia was storing ships in New York during the war, but how friendly were their relations with the Union and why?
Is this why Japan was in WWII?
>manlets
o i am laffin, when will they learn?
>>718306
>hitler was 5'6
>churchill was 5'5
Step aside Hirohito, Victor Emmanuel the Third is the king of manlets.
Who are the greatest female leaders in history?
>>716669
Op Pic related, she removed kebab
Who cares?
Wu "bloody cunnilingus" Zetian
>If you don't consume bread and wine that magically turns into the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, you're a degenerate heretic
Explain yourselves Catholics. Why do you worship graven images and eat your own God? Sounds awfully pagan to me.
Catholics invented the term pagan.
Let's consider Joshua of Nazareth - Jesus - for a moment.
We have here, allegedly, the son of a being who was able to impregnate a woman without ever having sex with her. Nowadays, we'd call that in-vitro fertilization, but what if the real method was even more insidious? What if, for example, the father of Jesus was a spore-based lifeform with the ability to take on genetic aspects of its host, resulting in a human/fungi hybrid?
Suppose this hybrid had some odd qualities. (Odd for a human, at any rate.) What if he (it?) could detach parts of himself to use as anti-bacterial remedies or regenerative bandages on other organic lifeforms? That's curing the sick and wounded, right there. Hell, what if the fungus could inhabit and reanimate a dead body? Lazarus might know a thing or two about that.
Also, if Jesus was a fungal human hybrid, there might have been a bit more truth to his statement about that bread being "his body." What if he intentionally laced the Last Supper with some of his own spores, which attached themselves to the brains of his apostles and resulted in a euphoric feeling that they later referred to as "The Holy Spirit?"
What if those spores survived, staying mostly dormant, but being passed down from generation to generation? When a priest blesses the Holy Communion, what if he (maybe without his knowledge) is allowing the spores he carries to propagate within the bread and wine, only to be consumed by the congregation? Those spores - the lifeform that they are, at least - would very likely have the same survival instinct as anything else, so they'd alter the brain chemistry of their host bodies, creating a desperate urge to convert more followers to the flock. They'd be anti-abortion, since they'd see a terminated zygote as one fewer potential host, and they'd be anti-science, since they wouldn't want to be discovered.
>>716494
That's nice, but they didn't invent paganism.
What's the deal with so many agnostic or inactive young men converting to Orthodox Christianity? No offense intended to our brothers in Christ but it just doesn't make sense..
Roman Catholic Church:
>The Holy See is more powerful than the rest of Italy and arguably more influential that most European countries
>Innumerable contributions to the arts, sciences, and philosophy
>clear, logical theology that just makes sense
>beautiful architecture
The Eastern Churches
>Incapable of defending their holy city from a bunch of uncivilized cavemen
>Putin's bitch
>superstitious and unscientific, made a bunch of frescoes and mosaics in late antiquity and proceeded to create nothing of value for over a thousand years
>ridiculous, desert hermit-tier theology that would be more at home in a WoW fanfic than in the real world
>a bunch of stupid domes and arches
I mean, it just doesn't make sense. Is it because the average anon is just that, an average philistine? But Aquinas said that even simple people have an appreciation of the divine. So what is going on here?
>>716313
>>The Holy See is more powerful than the rest of Italy and arguably more influential that most European countries
lol
>>716313
Protestant anti-Catholicism hardcoded in their minds, along with an ignorance of history
>The Holy See is more powerful than the rest of Italy and arguably more influential that most European countries
It's not 1200 anymore, piss off catholicuck [KAH-tho-lih-KEK]
I'm curious about our community's origins.
http://strawpoll.me/6855025
>>716085
/int/
>>716085
You should've allowed for multiple answers and far more boards.
t. fa/tg/uy
How did we go from this
To this?
You mean from Europe to Murica?
