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Actually witches were born out of pagan beliefs. For most of the middle ages the church denied the existence of witches, only accepting their existence during the corrupt Medici years when writs were sold offering protection from their powers.artanis_neravar said:
If you think that terrorists are signing up for alla's glory you need only look at how many of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, our ally, where the worst US sponsored terrorism took place. Those are not leaders, they are foot soldiers.
If there were no jews or catholics? You only asked for the elimination of the bible, but the Jews still considered themselves a separate people on ethnic lines anyhow and as a minority would be susceptible to exception and abuse.
The Spanish inquisition happened in spite of the church actually. The crown itself launched the initiative over Rome's objections, and it was directly under the control of the monarchy hence it is specifically the "Spanish Inquisition".
Also you misconstrue me. I'm not saying these events would have happened anyhow. I'm simply trying to highlight the ways in which their primary causes were not religion as well as shining the occasional bit of light on the confusion in your claims. All of them used religion as a justification to be sure, hence why I mention justifications, however all were born of human nature, greed, seflishness, prejudice, abuse of power ect. Not anything mandated from the bible itself. Jesus says "love your enemy" and is generally full of good advice ranging from tolerance to the separation of church and state. It's men who tell you somebody you never met is your enemy or that justice demands you should cut that person down. If there were no bible, there would still be tragedies. Supporting this thesis is all I'm trying to do. From the start when I stated "You're blaming a book for human nature."
Thankyou.
A human being armed with a D-Mat Gun? Rassilon is doing revolutions in the grave.
Anyway, one thing to remove... Let's remove stupidity overall. I think it would be highly altruistic of me to destroy idiocy itself and actually leave the PEOPLE out of it, thus sparing billions of lives while possibly making the world a better place to live in.
(This, of course, might cause the D-Mat Gun to explode.)
Anyway, one thing to remove... Let's remove stupidity overall. I think it would be highly altruistic of me to destroy idiocy itself and actually leave the PEOPLE out of it, thus sparing billions of lives while possibly making the world a better place to live in.
(This, of course, might cause the D-Mat Gun to explode.)
Without religion in ancient times there would be nothing else to stop people from murdering each other. Modern laws are based off of widely accepted human behavior which is based of off religion. enjoy your violent harsh new world!artanis_neravar said:
You sly dog. Well played.One Hit Noob said:
OT: Hmmm... On a non-philosophical-ish level? Wasps. Fucking wasps. They don't do anything, they just keep bloody flying into my room and then NOT GETTING OUT AGAINN!!!
"This also erases the history and very existence of the thing in question." oooooh
I'm going to have to say the Escapist background image. You know, the one you can't even see because there's a big light blue forum background in the way. Why? Well, see, I click on the very left of my screen, then hit home or pageup or pagedown etc etc to scroll. On the escapist however, it's a hyperlink. "Anthony Saves The World: Episode 10: Debbie Pt. 2" has just gotten 3 undeserved hits from me in my attempts to log in and read this thread, and I would like for them to understand that it did not, in fact, interest 3 people, so much as it was bad link placement forcing me to accidentally click it.
I'd love to have used this to better the world in a more significant way, but I dunno how removing a single thing could effect human nature. Churches maybe, simply for the sake of non-paradox it would mean people would have seen the idea of "a wizard did it" as unsatisfactory at the task of explaining things like, lightning, and clouds, and earthquakes. And thus, they would have no reason to congregate to worship the wizardly one who did it.
I'm going to have to say the Escapist background image. You know, the one you can't even see because there's a big light blue forum background in the way. Why? Well, see, I click on the very left of my screen, then hit home or pageup or pagedown etc etc to scroll. On the escapist however, it's a hyperlink. "Anthony Saves The World: Episode 10: Debbie Pt. 2" has just gotten 3 undeserved hits from me in my attempts to log in and read this thread, and I would like for them to understand that it did not, in fact, interest 3 people, so much as it was bad link placement forcing me to accidentally click it.
I'd love to have used this to better the world in a more significant way, but I dunno how removing a single thing could effect human nature. Churches maybe, simply for the sake of non-paradox it would mean people would have seen the idea of "a wizard did it" as unsatisfactory at the task of explaining things like, lightning, and clouds, and earthquakes. And thus, they would have no reason to congregate to worship the wizardly one who did it.
I'd save the tool for when something threatens all life on earth, like a Supernova or rouge black hole.
