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A Knight’s Tale
Cripple. History Major. Vaguely Left-Wing.
Alt of PugJesus for ensuring Fediverse compatibility and shit
A Knight’s Tale
I guess it doesn’t matter. What matters is getting giant jets on that dry-dock pronto!
I watched it so many times. It never got old. “Welcome to the new world. God save you, if it is right He should do so.”
‘Jupiter’ and ‘Zeus’ both come from the same Indo-European word root, even
Yes.
It’s kind of important to admit wrongdoing in the past.
Always! I love sharing what bits and pieces I’ve picked up over the years!
I’m honestly not sure what the relation of early Christian theology is wrt hell as we would understand it in the modern day. I know by the 4th century it was a ‘thing’, but other than that, I’m afraid I don’t have an answer.
Always happy to share! 🙏
In my defense, they did literally have a ritual for stealing gods
Other peoples: “Our god protects us!”
Romans: “my god now”
Well, at least part of that aspect of Christianity is preserved from early Christianity. The Romans didn’t like Christianity because it hit almost all of their taboos at once - and there are entire books written on that, so I won’t get into the other ‘triggers’, if you will - but one of the BIG taboos it hit was refusing to pay respects to the gods. For the Romans, the idea that the Christians ‘didn’t believe’ in the Roman gods was irrelevant - hell, the great Roman senator and orator Cicero was an atheist and a priest - but that they refused to swear oaths by Roman gods and refused to participate in pagan rituals under any circumstances was considered downright dangerous.
They might have escaped, even with all their other problems (secretive meetings, closed community, foreign, one God, popular amongst slaves) because of their associations with the Jews, whose religion the Romans tried to respect (even if they didn’t always understand it well), and who were exempt from certain requirements that other subjects of the Empire were subject to. However, the Jews and early Christians were very much opposed to one another, so Jewish communities across the Empire not only refused to speak up for early Christians, but often were the ones bringing complaints in the first place.
Monotheists! So contentious!
“Why can’t I hold all these gods” ask the Romans, who won’t stop stealing gods and making up new ones.
Explanation: In pre-modern polytheist faiths in general, but Hellenic religion in particular, there is a tendency to adopt the gods of one’s neighbors - or rationalize them as the same god under different names. To the Romans this was the Interpretatio Graeca/Interpretatio Romana, depending on what time and cultures you’re discussing. To the Romans, the gods were the same all around the world, just worshipped and seen differently. This made it very easy for Romans to spread their own practices and to adopt the practices of other faiths - Roman gods usually had many epithets representing their varying aspects (MARS SILVANVS for Mars as god of the woods, for example), so to tack on a provincial name was no problem at all - MARS LENVS was both Lenus, Gallic god of war, and Mars, Roman god of war; the Romans saw no contradiction in it.
Furthermore, to the Hellenic faith of the tradition practiced by the Greeks and Romans, correct belief (‘orthodoxy’) was of secondary importance - correct ACTION (‘orthopraxy’) was what was vital. Usually envisioned as ‘paying the proper respects to the gods’ rather than a united moral code.
On one hand, this is a very tolerant outlook, and that is commendable. On the other hand, it could lead to some curious ideas about other faiths - ranging from the eccentric (equating Wodan to Mercury because they’re both traveling gods) to the outright offensive (asserting that the God of the Jews, YHWH, was just IVPITER CAELVS, Jupiter as envisioned as the sky itself, since the Jews didn’t and don’t make idols of their God).
I believe they just pull all the text of books from Google Books with the appropriate publishing date.
“The rules don’t say a bird can’t be an attendee”
lmao, imagine bothering to ban someone from unrelated communities because you were mad at a comment they made.
“Knights of the air”
It was a great idea - let the troops check how much ammo remained in the mag. Shame about the whole “Real world conditions” thing.
Yeah, 'twas 1949. Contrary to the claims of some, they were very dark times. Still, it’s nice to see that at least some modern values were prominent enough to get this kind of statement of support.
Sorry, what I meant was “COMIC BOOKS GONE WOKE NO TOLERANCE IN MY SUPERMAN COMIX”
Most likely, yes!