The traditional Christian response I've heard to the problem of evil is that people have free will and have fallen into sin, and the traditional atheist response I've heard is that natural disasters like hurricanes have nothing to do with free will and still cause human suffering. This is where the conversation usually ends, and I'm wondering if anyone has a good rebuttal to the natural disaster problem
As a Christian, I don't think people are punished on Earth for their sins except by the natural consequences, i.e. extramarital sex leading to STDs and pregnancy. I don't think evil makes one more likely to be a victim of a natural disaster. Stuff happens. I believe we will be punished for our sins in the afterlife.
God sends droughts and tsunami to darker people to test faith of overweight white middle-class Christians in USA and to let them be better Christians by donating $20 to charity.
I'm not making it up, this is a paraphrase of an explanation I've heard.
is there a goatse version of that picture?
Hypothetically, if you were a terrorist with a time machine, and you could kill one person at any point in time to cause the most damage to humanity, who would you kill?
Alexander the Great before he could conquer Asia and establish a dynasty that would unite all people under one flag. Just imagine, it would probably take another thousand years before another conqueror of his caliber could create a world order. Can you imagine living a thousand years ago? Wouldn't even be able to post from Mars.
>>456732
Alexander's empire barely lasted a single generation
Also >unite all people
You mean Macedonia, Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt, as far as he could get into India, and Persia which at the time was like half the world's population to be fair but hardly ALL people.
>>456724
>Most damage to humanity
Stalin, easily. His sudden death triggers WWIII
Why is liberty so overrated? Isn't it better to live in a dictatorship/kingdom than in a hypocrite "democracy"?
I like doing shit desu senpai
It really depends on what role your playing in that situation, if you are a person, villien, serf, or slave in that political society you might not be to happy or find time to learn how to wind surf because your working 15 hours a day. The king or dictator in that same political society or corporation has a compete opposite point of view, he's got all the time he wants to become expert wind surfer and hang out getting drunk and eating chicken wings. What is his only obligation really? Whatever he decides. I believe your asking this because you never actually been free, truly free, historically speaking, men who are the subjects to another or even a sovereign state like Rome can never find happiness or security. It was a society of slaves where all men are equal under a single sovereign power, to eachother they appear to be free but actually they're not because they are equally subjects under the sovereign power in a political slave society.
Depends on where you are in that hierarchy
What was so bad about this guy?
He was really bad in the third season of House of Cards
>>454657
He got caught.
>>454657
watergate
Were they the best warriors of their time?
Nah Swadians are way better.
They lacked a proper religion of war. Even if they had a God of War (I assume?), they couldn't match someone whose sole functional purpose is to act like a spiritual grey goo.
Did they have Ulfberht swords? Because they had the best steel for a while.
Andreas Palaiologos was the last Byzantine pretender. He sold his claims to Isabella and Ferdinand.
Does this mean the current Spanish monarch has a claim on Constantinople?
>>453857
The current spanish monarch is a Bourbon.
>>453972
>Who is directly descended from the Habsburgs
>directly
no
Isabella and Ferdinand weren't even Assburgs.
How were attitudes towards homosexuals in the medieval period/Dark Ages?
>>453628
Fair
>>453628
Some feudal states would not permit marriage
>>453645
And by that he means punishable by death.
Is a human just Homo sapiens sapiens? Do other advanced members of the genus Homo count? I mean, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and that unnamed third species from Africa could all breed with us, and they were different species with advanced behaviors. What about other bipedal apes known as hominins? If tigers and cougars are all considered cats, then shouldn't they be "humans"?
>>453356
>and that unnamed third species
never heard of such. you mean h. sapiens idaltu or h. heidelbergensis?
>>453377
No, not idaltu, although that probably did happen (which is why the only race of human is extinct now, kek). It might be Heidelbergensis though.
http://www.livescience.com/15911-humans-interbred-extinct-relatives.html
>>453418
*only other true race
Are their any noticeable effects of neanderthal genes among modern human populations?
>>451451
specifically physically, i know that the neanderthal admixture changed brain composition and immune system function
Larger supra orbital torus, occipital bun, larger nose cavity, heavier brow ridge, thicker skin
Some say red hair and other characteristics but that's highly debatable and involving complete speculation
Not really. At absolute most a person can have up to 4% of the DNA that seperates them from chimps (which is about 1% of the total genome) be from neanderthals. Considering that the majority of DNA is non-coding junk sequences, you're looking at imperceptible differences based purely on neanderthal dna.
Why do so many cultures have depictions and stories of dragons despite being mythical?
>>451322
The phallus.
The word dinosaur was invented in 1841. It means terrible lizard.
Before that, they were called dragons. The reason so many ancient cultures and civilizations talk about dragons is because man lived with them. There are even pots depicting man riding on dinosaurs.
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Dinosaurs you retard
What historical nation/state/army do you wish you could have been a part of?
Pic related
Achaemenid or Roman Empire under the five good Emperors. For armies though, Prussia for sure.
>>450927
American Army during the early 1900's.
mostly cause Krag-Jorgensons are hella sexy
Imagine being the Roman soldier who drilled the nails into the hands of Jesus.
I wonder how much he is burning in hell right now
Is anyone here majoring in a college or university degree field related to history or other humanities?
>>450586
I'm doing STEM but I'm thinking of double majoring in politics.
I'm currently doing a Bachelor of Arts in History and Government & International Relations. What are you doing, OP?
>>450586
>on /his/
>asks if anybody is majoring in history
Well I certainly hope so.
I am an ROTC cadet majoring in History and (obviously) minoring in Military Science. I want to go to seminary and be an Army chaplain.
ITT: historical shit depicted in movies that pisses you off to no end
I'll start
>Any film set at any period in the Roman Rebublic/Empire's history
>every legionnaire is wearing lorica segmentata
modern wheat
>movie set in ancient egypt
>every egyptian wears a nemes headcloth
>>447624
I've got another. In one of my history classes on Ancient Greece we had to do a project where we made a short documentary (like 10 minutes) on an ancient battle of campaign
>group of SJWs who are only in the class for the history credit
>they do a documentary over Alexander the Great's campaigns into Asia
>they have a segment where they're demonstrating soldiers marching with their spears
obviously it was horrendous, the costumes were like those Halloween 300 costumes, but that's not what pissed me off
>they show a scene of soldiers resting and eating
>they're eating...
>CORN
>MAIZE CORN
JUST
What kind of man was Mohammed? Was he a peaceful vigilante spreading the word of Allah or a man obsessed with war and the seeking the destruction of Christianity and Judaism? If so, what would he have gained from the destruction of these 2?
>>440380
>shits on fire, sadiq
>>440380
His only two sons were Christian and Jewish you fucking dumbass. Why would he hate the two religions he was allied with? That's like asking if Churchill hated America.
>>440380
>obsessed with war and the seeking the destruction of Christianity and Judaism?
he didnt hate them
he hated idoltry though
Did the New Deal really help the American economy in the 1930s?
>>460081
Yes
>>460088
How?
>>460103
>increase GDP
>decrease unemployment
>create regulations that stop the regular cycle of banking crises until they get repealed
