Note that in this thread, strong evidence was provided for God: >>637821
While it might not convince you, you should at least consider God a reasonable possibility, and that in itself will help my case here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxlFxyU38KM
Before we began actually arguing the case, we first of all have to clear up if Christian theology is even compatible with the Old Testament, so I'll start there. I can't go into all the minute details, but I will with the two main things, the Trinity, and the change in stuff like Kosher.
1. The Trinity. First of all, YHWH appears as a Trinity in Genesis 18. The common rebuttal to this is that the God repeatedly says the Lord is One. Now, what does this signify, God is One? Why does God stress it repeatedly? That's really a good question, because it seems like a peculiar thing to stress. The answer is that it is foreshadowing of Christ saying, "I am my father are one." These phrases are meant to be parallel, so we know when Christ says that, he means "one" in the sense that God is One. Not something figurative, but in the sense that Christ is actually God.
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>>669362
2. The Law, why is it no longer in affect? Well (and even Orthodox Judaism agrees here) Jewish Law is NOT for the whole world to follow, it is a specific covenant with the Jewish people, it is like Nazarite or monastic vows. The Jews are a priestly people meant to lead the gentiles to salvation (Isaiah 49:6). All that, Orthodox Judaism concurs with, the only difference is they think that will come with the end times, but gentiles are never seen as required to follow Jewish Law, just the Noahide Law (Orthodox Christian cannot eat blood, either, just as the Noahide Law says). Christians think it came with Christ, and the new covenant was established then, which means the Jews fulfilled their function as leading the Gentiles to salvation, they were now supposed to be a role model for them within the new global covenant. So the idea that the Jewish law is superseded by a brand new global covenant makes sense here, or at least it's not out of the question.
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>>669364
Now, let see which Christian narrative we talking about: the primary ones are the pagan Christian narrative (Gnostic), the Pharisaic Christian narrative (Gospel of the Hebrews), and the Essenic Christian narrative (Orthodox). So of course we'll be discussing the last narrative. First thing first, the Essenic Jews considered telling the truth to be a matter of extreme importance, morally, they saw it as better to die than to lie (contrast this with someone like Odysseus). In evidence of this, let's look as Josephus first off, who says they forbade oaths, believing that it was indicting yourself if your regular yes or no were no considered trustworthy, but that if you did need to take an oath, that was it, nothing whatsoever could come between you and that oath; an example is when you were initiated into the Essenes, you had to eat only with them; and if you did something grievous, people would get kicked out, but according to Josephus, they'd often have to live on grass because they said they'd only eat with other Essenes (this of course would eventually kill them, but they were frequently taken back in after many days of privation). This scrupulousness in regard to the truth as highly important, from a moral perspective, was maintained in early Essenic Christianity. In support of this, you only have to see how denying Christ, even on pain of death, was considered absolutely wrong--no other religion is that strict, as far as I know, where you cannot pretend and say you are not be a part of it if threatened with death. Another support for the immense concern for truth is that Christians had to actively confess their sins to each other--in fact, early Christian account record that confession had to be to the whole congregation.
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ITT: I've never heard of the problem of induction
>A.D. 1453
>Turkish hounds are baying at the gates, no hope lies beyond the walls
>The great seal is broken
>Rome is indifferent to our cries
>Tooth and nail, our soldiers fight on the walls, their last communion wine still fresh on their lips
>Silence
>Footsteps leading up to the door of the Hagia Sophia
>The Adhan sounds
>mfw
>>669360
GAME OVER
>>669360
>Greek Romans
>spend centuries selling Coptic christians to muslims as slaves for shekels and to put off the invasion
>treat Latins as shit, start rolling around some proto-Chick tracts around criticizing their practices
>Dont want to engage Latin theology, consider it "mistaken" even though they havent read it
>imprision their fellow monks that have read it, and naturally, push for reunion after they realized they were on the wrong side of the schism
>reject Rome's attempts to establish reunion, knowing well their modern counterparts will cry that it wasnt "motivated by Christ" because some angry monk said so, and that it was a "forced reunion" even though they could (and did) leave at any minute
>somehow they turn out to be the good guys
hooray for orthodoxy...
>deciding to be heroic at the very last minute
They could've tried being heroic when they still had the resources to win.
What is the morally best thing to do?
>>669138
Would it be right to kill someone so you can donate their organs and save 5 lives?
Flag the trolley down.
Electric traction allows for quick acceleration/deceleration.
If you've ever watched old footage taken from a streetcar, you'll notice that people and cars get right out in front of them constantly, because they can more-or-less stop on a dime.
Is it true that rape was used as a weapon against conquered Muslim women by the crusaders?
>>669073
>used as a weapon
What does that even mean?
>>669073
Given that it was a war, and that's what conquering armies tend to do then yes it's most likely true.
>>669073
Probably not since Knights followed the Chivalric code.
How the British saw the Irish Famine at that time?
How do they see it today?
They saw it as natural selection.
Noone gave a shit. Noone gives a shit.
>thread about the brutality of the IRA gets lots of reply with information about irish barbarianism
>suddenly some butthurt paddy makes a thread about "oi me four trillion poor starvingh oirish"
Guess next thread will be a Cromwell one you fucking potato eater
I just realised I'm 1/24 Danish and want to learn more about my warrior heritage. Why were vikings such great fighters? Was it because of the harsh, mountainous enviroment?
>>668915
Nice Saxon falseflag.
>>668915
>muh warrior heritage
kek
go back to slurping on that BBC, little Danish boi
The single most obvious bait I've even seen
Varangian Guard is overrated and so is Byzantine Empire that was sacked multiple times. Byzantines were failures.
DELET THIS
> Byzantines were failures.
Their empire existed thousand years after Rome was kill.
>>668836
and it also got rekt thousand times more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cauBnrPXpbg
Is Varg right? I'm somewhat ignorant on the theory but I assumed this was universally accepted. Also, what does /his/ think about Varg (and his wife's) views on Europeans.
>Is Varg right?
I don't think so.
>I thought the theory was universally accepted.
Things in science never really are. I think that it has the most evidence pointed towards it, but I don't think I'd put much weight in it.
>What does /his/ think about Varg?
He's a sociopath and murderer, ruined one of the greatest Black Metal bands in history, and has resorted to racial theories to try and feel superior now that he's amounted to nothing in his life.
>>668678
I think Varg is pretty based. I am not too sure about the 'out of Africa' theory considering they have recently found a human ancestor which predated the oldest found 'human' in Africa.
>>668678
are you actually for real?
Varg is completly retarded and his theories are based /pol/ tier science.
He makes good music and is really interesting tho.
Was the Islamic golden age really that impressive?
>>668663
Yes and it was vastly superior to anything Christianity ever accomplished. Haven't you ever heard of the DARK ages???
t. Liberal cuckold
Yeah.
Nah.
>History is a set of lies agreed upon.
What are you gonna do, stab me?
>Raise high the black flags, my children. No prisoners. No pity. I will shoot any man I see with pity in him.
>There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
>tfw French soldier during The Seven Years war
>tfw renacting the French and Indian war next week
These are good feels
I'm glad someone revived this thread. Although I was surprised my last one survived as long as it did. Does anyone do any reenacting in the greater New York area or within 3-4 hours of that area?
Obligatory 60th rifles re-enactor that always shitposts about the 60th reporting in!
Pic: A painting of two of our members done by Christina Hook, who is one of Ospreys main illustrators.
How would the roman legion fare against an 11th century crusading army?
Crusaders lost to arab goatfuckers
they'd lose to the romans too
>>667768
What kind of Roman legion? A principate army wouldn't have a real counter to crusader heavy cavalry combined with heavy infantry.
>>667768
A roman legion would be fucked, because smaller numbers and no combined arms.
A roman army would probably fuck them, given same quality of leadership.
What is the best religion for a woman to follow?
Which is the one that most celebrates feminine spirituality and is sexuality-affirming.
Probably don't have to mention Christianity or Islam
...
...
Show your tits and let us celebrate feminine form.
>>667612
>What is the best religion for a woman to follow?
The true one. Same as what the best religion for men is
>>667612
>best
Tell me what human nature is and I'll tell you what is best for it.
Was the sin committed by Eve sexual in nature?
No.
>>667393
Don't take the book of Genesis as anything more than a collection of allegories.
>>667393
The original sin comes from the inevitable limits of our existance. We can only live through killing other organisms, our life is technically one big killing frenzy. Just think, how many lives did it take just so you are able to shitpost of 4chan? Billions? Trillions?
We are not spotless beings, that's what the original sin means.
Why is the African slave trade, the Holocaust, and other genocides such as the Native Americans always discussed with multiple films and books produced about it, but I never was taught about the Barbary Slave trade until I came across an article about it on my own?
In 1785 when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, they asked him what right he had to take slaves in this way. He replied that the "right" was "founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise".[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
I only learned about it after Obama stated that Islam was woven into the fabric of American history.
Because that would be racist
>>666767
Because it wasn't as disgusting as the other ones. Barbary slavery wasn't inherited or race based.
>Responding to bait
>tripfag
OP confirmed for faggot.
But yeah, Barbary Slave Trade. Why do you think we started going to Africa in the first place? African slave trade only started because the portuguese needed slaves for their colonies, and had military bases in Africa which were established because of the berbers in the first place.
