The Byzantines were Hellenes despite the fact that they called themselves Romans. Greeks call themselves Romans sometimes too, with the name Romioi.
Anna Comnena calls her uncle as a new Hercules, so of course the Byzantines saw themselves as descendants of the Greeks, of Hercules, odysseus etc, while they hated the Latins and Rome was always rival against Constantinople.
@MrBsct Justinianus thought that Greeks and Romans were the same nation and he stated that both of them descend from Lycaon. Overall Byzantium was a Greek empire because the official language and culture was Greek and all ethnicities were under Greek influence.
The biggest reason Western Europe like the Vikings and Germans referred to them as Greeks because they wanted to be Romans. Charlamene called himself a "Roman emperor" and the Holy Roman empire was considered the sucessor of the empire even though it wasn't. Greeks still called themselves Roman.
I don't really care which culture was more closer to the Byzantines to my opinion it was a mixture but a highly doubt the Byzantines would give up their legacy of how the Eastern Empire formed.
@Zorro11144 you don't have to be Latin to be Roman... Being a Roman doesn't mean you can't German. Since 212 all the free men of the oecumene (Roman empire) were named civites Romani (Roman citizens): Greeks, Spaniards, Egyptians, Thracians etc. Roman didn't mean the man who comes from Rome.
@Zorro11144 Does it matter that some emperors and historians saw them as hellenstic? The are just as many emperors like Justintine and Belisarias wanted the empire back and stuck on to Rome's custom's and traditions. If they were more Greek why don't they change their name and goverment style like the Sassanids did when they overthrew Parthia?
Constantine was Greco serbian. He was more concerened of a united Rome under a
religion rather than what nationality is superior.
@MrBsct Our name was Roman but we were Hellenes. You will never understand the mentality. The Byzantines hated the latins, the empire was Greek and not Latin. Byzantium was not like it was the Roman empire during the time of Emperor Dioclitianus.
Constantine the great was Greco-Thracian and his mother saint Helen was Greek.
Constantine more likely saw a 'sundog' (parhelion) or solar halo than a meteorite. The vision involved or resembled the sun and resembled a cross. He seems to have had a special devotion to the Sun God from early in his life and only gradually come to identify him with Christ.
Rome was never able to find a balance between the power of the four big social groups: the state, the propertied aristocracy, the army, and the people.
How it stood toward the end of the Western Empire, basically it only took one group to co-opt another (the aristocracy gets angry at government taxation and co-opts the army, the government co-opts the people with promises of land and bread, etc) and then the other two groups are forced to align, and it's civil war.
The quality of the legions declined mainly because Rome began to hire more auxiliaries or non-romans to fight for her. As foreigners and mercenaries made up a larger percentage of the legions, the standards of their equipment and, more importantly, dicipline and supply slacked. The armies that fought under trejan would not be matched anywhere in the world until Napoleon instituted his corps system
They are still the Roman legions. Before Constantine was emperor, the Roman army was reformed under Diocletian. I think what we see here is the usage of mail armor and a long sword with oval shields. Different from the old imperial legions.
Generally the troops are lower quality in the late Roman army, however, the professional body under Constantine, the Comitatenses are as good and disciplined as the previous generations of Roman soliders. Moreover, Constantine is an apt tactician.
I find it funny how people will always try to prove that their religion is so great but yet somehow it is in the midst of so many wars through history and now. To try to explain something so rightous but is responsible for so many death is hypocritical.
Mihí dicendum est, antiqua contentió, utrum Byzantium Rómanus aut Græcus erat, ad finem temporis extendet, sed satis dicere est fata Rómanórum Deum eós ostendit cursum ad victoriam erat pér illum signum arcanum. Si successorés Constantiní conservávissent ipsí consilia súa Rómæ...
@unfukkkmee The people of the empire were culturally Greek and mostly spoke Greek, but the Byzantine emperors, at least, saw themselves as Roman and while the empire existed both its contemporaries and itself called it the Roman Empire.
THE ANCIENT Romans HAVE GREEK BLOOD, IF U CHECK, THE GRAVE OF ANCIENT ROMAN, YOU WILL SEE GREEK DNA IN ROMAN SKELETONS. AND, THE BYZANTINTES ARE GREEKS.
WHY ARE YOU SO AGAINST GERMANS? IF YOU ARE SO CONFIDENT ABOUT YOUR SUPERPOWER, WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME YOU FOUGHT GERMANS? WE ARE ALL BROUGHT IN THIS WORLD WITH DIFFERENT POLITICAL BELIEFS AND CULTURES. IT'S NOT LIKE GREEKS ARE GOING TO RISE UP AGAIN INTO A SINGLE EMPIRE AGAIN. GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE. RESPECT HISTORY AND LETS NOT REPEAT IT!
Who cares if the Byzantines are greek in blood? They serve a Roman flag. Washington is Europeon but an American hero. Napoleon is Corsican but a French hero.
@englishfrenchgerman i am sorry to disapoint you but you can visit any Greek village and meet old people to see that they still call themselves Romaioi (which means romans) and mean greek.Greek people (citizens not only emperors) used to call themselves Romans because they considered themselves the new owners of the empire, the new Romans, and didn't recognise inhabitants of city of Roman as Romans.The byzantine empire's predominant nationality was Greek.
@englishfrenchgerman The easter Roman empire was only Roman by the name and Greek in its substance. Also Constantine the great was Greek by his mother and Thracian by his father from Moesia.
@Zorro11144 who gives a shit if Byzantines and Constitine are Greek in genetics. They are Greeks under a Roman flag and their political history goes back to Italy not the Hellens or the Classical states. Washington had Europeon blood but no one cares. Napoleon is Corsican not French...nobody gives a shit either, he's a French hero.
Rome was influenced by Greek culture...I'll give you that.
@MrBsct An identity of an empire or of a state is always important. The Byzantine empire was a Greek empire because its culture and language was Greek. After the 7th century the dominant population of Byzantium was Greek. It was only Roman by the name and Greek in its substance. Also the Holy Roman empire was called Roman but it was a German empire.
@Zorro11144 So America is a British nation because when it was founded it was using British language and British culture? Was the Macedonian empire a Persian empire because most of the population was Persian? No, the nation's founders make the nation and the people of all DNA are offically their people,
Byzantines are Roman by name and substance, their politics, ideals, and line of rule come from Italy. Yes they are Greek but African too.
@MrBsct Byzantium was called also imperium Grarcorum, Thomas Akinates in a book of his writes a work for Byzantium with the tittle Contra Errores Graecorum.
Nicetas Choniates insisted on using the name "Hellenes", he states that he cannot continue in writting history, which is one of the greatest inventions of Hellenism and he stressed out the outrages attacks of the "Latins" against the "Hellenes" in the Peloponessus.
Nicetas Choniates, "The Sack of Constantinople", 9 '¦Å, Bonn,pp.806
@MrBsct Emperor John III Ducas Vatatzes (1192-1254 AD), wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation"and states that Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors.
John Vatatzes, "Unpublished Letters of Emperor John Vatatzes", Athens I, pp.369--378, (1872)
@MrBsct Theodore II Lascaris (1222-1258), was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes... What do you, O Italian, have to display?"
@MrBsct In the 14th cent AD Nikolaos Kavasilas calls Greeks the scholars of Thessaloniki, and the city as "house of Hellenism". Nicephorus Blemmydes referred to the Byzantine emperors as Hellenes. Theodore Alanias (in 1204) wrote in a letter to his brother that "the homeland may have been captured, but Hellas still exists within every wise man".
@MrBsct The neo-platonic philosopher George Gemistos Plethon (15th cent AD) stated "We are Hellenes by race and culture".
George Gemistus Plethon, "Paleologeia and Peloponessiaka", pp.247
The scholar, teacher, and translator, John Argyropoulos (15th cent AD) calls John VIII Palaiologos as a Greek king and addresses him as "Sun King of Hellas".
@MrBsct While the vikings saw the Byzantines as Greeks.In their runestones which are being called as Greece runestones, they recorded the Byzantine empire as a Greek empire.
@MrBsct "On these runestones the word Grikkland ("Greece") appears in three inscriptions, the word Grikk(j)ar ("Greeks") appears in 25 inscriptions, two stones refer to men as grikkfari ("traveller to Greece") and one stone refers to Grikkhafnir ("Greek harbours"). Constantinople is being mentioned by the Norse as Miklagard which means the big city.Rune inscriptions are even to be found inside the Hagia Sophia temple and were made by the Varangian troops who served in the Byzantine army.
Yes, that is what they used in this point of time. The Lorica Hamata was the most used type of armor by the Romans. The Lorica Segmentata was used between the first and third century but in the later years it was not common. This happened during the later years.
It's curious... that ancient cristianism did not believe in pagan rites or beliefs... but they kept the supersticious ideology from their "pagan enemies".
@lopeyschools Ya there in the history books of all the civilizations in the world we've been shedding blood b4 Jesus and were still shedding blood now, and while some of them have been for religious reasons most of them was because of land, gold, or fame.
@zia685 Someone call the historians! Call the scholars! Call all the academics! Tell them to stop working. zia685 has found the answer to why Rome fell! Jesus did it!
Constantine the Great was undoubtedly the greatest Illyrian warrior-emperor of Rome, the founder of Christendom. He was of Albanian and not of Serbian, or any other Slavic origin, because the Slavs moved to the Balkans in the 5th century. Greek author Critoboulos of Imbros (15th cent) calls Albanians led by Scanderbeg Illyrians.
Back then to follow Jesus Christ was considered to be following a criminal an outlaw and a rebel it was a disgrace hence why it was an underground religion. The Romans had conquered most of the world with their old Gods so to follow a new one was considered not Roman, this was the most civilised empire in the known world there was plenty of written sources like mentioned unlike the dark ages which followed later.
@hack969british The fact that the holy book of christianity was compiled on the initiative of a Roman politician, whose sole purpose was to keep the Roman empire together, is evidence that the bible is just a human concoction. There is no evidence for the salvation story.
Not likely, my friend. More likely that it really happened. There is no such thing as a "reliable historian" who doesn't have a personal opinion to push. Who's going to judge who's "reliable?" There were thousands of people who knew about this event at the time, and it has always been believed until this present time when we Moderns like to think we're so much smarter than people used to be. If oral history among ancient tribes is reliable, why isn't it also reliable with Christians? It is!
Does anyone know what happened that turned the mighty Roman Legions into this? Cause im pretty sure that one legion from Vespasians time would have smashed Constatine's entire army into bits
@cartman2792 I doubt you are correct. Constantine was a militarily brilliant...he never lost a battle. In terms of leadership, both were fantastic, but Constantine used a different tactic every battle and his enemies were never able to keep up with him.
@cartman2792 They used too much Auxilia, and Romans get lazy, and so they sucked at fighting. Still, they got best army in the world.. Is that telling how strong they were? (if it didn`t, it should)
@cartman2792 By this point in history, Rome was accepting almost anyone into its ranks as citizens. These people were not royal to Rome as the natural born citizens were. This was strictly for the purpose of keeping enough people in the army to defend themselves from Barbarian incursions. Their unit cohesion, quality of arms and training rapidly declined as a result.
@cartman2792 empire was in decline and runing out of money to train the army like it used to. To expensive to equip every soldier with the segmented armor and shield of the classic age.
According to wikipedia (because I don't know either) Lamellar is too hard to maintain, & it has something to do with their vassals thinks it's "unequal" & it shows how they are the 2nd class & stuff
@cartman2792 Answer...The legions structure had changed. It was no longer commanded by Rome but by nobles/generals and as the year dragged on it was less about trying to keep quality armed and trained soldiers then having soldiers period. Legionares were soldiers of the state in some manner. These "legions" were merely private armies.
@cartman2792 This happened due to the mixing of other inferior cultures like the gauls and germanics. The same will happen to europe and america if we allow further immigration and multi-culturalism but fear not for Romes return will come about soon.
Constantine was High Priest of the Unconquered Sun until his death. He was a usurper not in the running. He changed his anti-Christian predecessor's reforms only to replace military Mithraism as State Religion with more universal Christianity. He restored one-man rule choosing the successor from Diocletian's collegiate system of dual Augusti training dual Caesares to replace them. That system was capable of extension to more Augusti and more Caesares. The Byzantine Empire was more repressive
@Saiaton Yeah but Diocletian's system did not even survive him stepping down (let alone dying!) The Tetrarchy was doomed from the start. Diocletian just turned Rome into a prison.
Someone like Constantine was bound to come along sooner or later.
Yes, we do know for certain what they witnessed that day. There was a cross in the heavens, and a message - In this sign you shall conquer, or in Latin, In Hoc Signo Vinces. Why don't we simply accept what happened, instead of trying to believe that a falling meteor or some such thing somehow inspired men to put the symbol of Christ on their shields before fighting against pagan Rome? The lie is a lot harder to swallow.
@TheCid100 there are almost no reliable records of what went on during constantines rise to power. chances are the event in question never even happened, and that the whole story was later fabricated to explain why constantine suddenly converted his political war machine to christianity, which he almost certainly did in order to take advantage of its unifying properties and place himself as a profit, gaining unquestioning loyalty from the army, as well as fanatical zeal.
all western countries are christian so how is the west run by jews lol some people just speak out of there ass.
early christianity was influenced heavily by jewish traditions, it was the romans that turned christianity into a materialistic religion were the pope took all power and was only after money. henry the 8th went even further he created Protestantism and kept all the churchs money for himself, the only reason rome even took to christianity was becuz they saw profit in it.
@Mr911baby dont be silly, 2% of the population in america is jewish, if they really ran hollywood and the propaganda machines then they would have a much higher population.
A time when Jews didn't rule the world, God bless old Christendom. God damn this new Jewish world order of materialism, broken families, single mothers, women dressed like whores, homosexual marriage, debt laden life, war with no purpose, hedonism of every kind and above all utter Godlessness in the West.
@theone1087 "God damn this new Jewish world order of materialism, broken families, single mothers, women dressed like whores, homosexual marriage, debt laden life, war with no purpose, hedonism of every kind and above all utter Godlessness in the West." - YOU BLAME THIS ON THE JEWS?!?! What kind of anti-semitic fundamentalist christian are you, damn! You're the kind of people that ruin this world, SERIOUSLY! How short-sighted is your vision of reality, people like you shouldn't be allowed out!
@theone1087 First of all read a book about evolutionary biology, then read one written by sam harris if you're cognitively capable of understanding words, 'cause the beliefs you're advocating are primitive/tribal 1st century B.C.
Grow up, read a scientific, thus empirically proven, book.
Damn I get goose bumps when I come about people like you, and not the good kind.
Give me one good reason why jews in particular are responsible for almost all the bad shit in the world?
5:34 "The enemy of Rome will be defeated." A lot of these ancient oracles had double meanings. One emperor received a sign, he would destroy a great empire if he went to war; his own was destroyed.
A lot of people disregard Christianity, that is because they are offended.
A religion that is no longer a minority religion in the Roman Empire, was preached by 1 single man. It wasn't Jesus, it was St Paul. His work entrenched Christianity for 300 years, undergoing heavy persecution.
The coming of Constantine and his vision (was a pagan believer prior), marked the end of persecution of Christians. This is a tremendously important turning point in all Europe.
@Laz24 Hindsight is 20/20 this was 316 A.D. Believe me, had you been alive in that time, you would have thought the same! You really don't get any points for being wiser about nature and the universe that people who've been dead for almost 1700 years...
@goodgirlkay And i supose you'd know better than me? lol I'm not trying to be rude or to disrespect you but we are far more advanced than they were back then. SO yes we are wiser in some ways when compraed to Constantine and others of his time. Just syaing :)
they r not true christian it means catholic is fake. true christian is who teaching the word of god preaching it like jesus did the roman dis is to conquest kill those disobeying them. christ is diff. those are fool.
@CDspartan21 Nobody saw anything before the Battle, or at any rate not one of the 90,000 people there saw fit to mention it. Eusabius wrote two accounts covering this battle, and in the first there is only talk of a dream, and that was of the God Sol Invictus. His later 'Life of Constantine' mentions a grand vision of the Christian God (Eusabius was a bishop), but it's propaganda. Constantine worshipped every God available, and later regarded himself as a God.
@vaughangarrick If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
@gamesbok you clearly do not know your scriptures if you interprate that verse meaning that we must hate--it means man must forsake wickedness of the world wether it come from friends or family in order to follow the saviour----Christians are not supposed to hate anyone
a fairytale becomes d state religion of a murderous nazi lik regime,i really wonder people back then ever used thr brains,god is the only thin they lived for and committed genocides in its name
@thescorpionking2020 You need to work on your ability to look at people from their own perspective. I don't know how much you know about history, but what you are talking about was the norm of the time, and if we judge historical events only from a modern perspective, we won't understand what really drove people of the time. Besides, who knows which of the things we do today will the people of the future find mind boggling?
@dovlinhos m understanding wat u r trying to say wat m sayin if only people used thr brains a little more back then,its not as if people didnt,there wer many intellectuals and atheists even back then but due to d power religion had over d masses and they way it was used they nevr came out wat m sayin is religion is dangerous and vicious as its history proves,we hav to kick it out
@TheDarkFrontier dude i believe tht d world is enriched by differences,thr is no point nd no fun living in a world whr all people act nd believe the same thing,wat m sayin tht first of all dat religion is a delusion and it has a bloody history,thr r sum gud things in it no doubt but a delusion is still a delusion and we need to educate people against it,just coz it makes sum people haooy doesnt mean its true,religion is a poison 2 d human brain
Oh and Atheism doesn't have a bloody history? Wars fought not out of religion have killed far more people than religion have ever done. Can't you see what a morally low thing you are playing about with? Educating people against something is called BRAINWASHING. Why can't you just let people make up their own fucking mind about religion, if they believe it fine, if they dont believe it fine. You extreme atheists are just as bad as religious extremists.
@TheDarkFrontier so u mean to say its fine to believe in 6 day creation myths,original sin,adam and eve nonsense,dead bodies rising,resurrections,if the violent extremists are removed,so u really tellin me dat?so u mean to say its fine if peple base thr lives on fairytales if those people who kill in d name of these fairytales are removed,i dunno how u cn actually even make tht point
I can make that point because I'm not an ignorant fuck like you. You refuse to accept that some people are different than you. Eradicating entire ways of life is exactly the same thing that ignited the Second World War. Ever hear about a little thing called the Holocaust? 6 million were killed because they were different. If anyone should be eradicated its people who refuse to accept people who are different, like yourself. People like you drag society down.
@TheDarkFrontier people lik me uplift the society of delusions nt people lik u who believe in letting people believe in nonsense just bcoz it makes them happy,wat is false has to be exposed nd fought against it and arguements against it shown to others,so tht people stop basing thr lives on false doctrines and embrace reality,thr is nuthin gud about believing in 6 day creation myths,and non beliervers burning in hell 4 eternity they are evil beliefs
No people like you give society a bad name, people like me let people believe in whatever they want BECAUSE ITS THEIR FUCKING LIFE. Seriously, you are one petty ignorant sonofabitch, you've basically just refused to even look at what I'm saying and re-iterated your points in a shiny new wrapper, probably because you thought it was clever. People like you ignited wars, conflict, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. Yeah, people like you REALLY do the world a favour.
If you really believe that you want to "correct" the world of religion, then go back 70-odd years, get a job as in Hitler's Nazi cabinet, because with your fucked up morals you'd fit right in with them.
@TheDarkFrontier dun worry hitler was a jew bashing genocidal roman catholic lik roman catholics hav always been nd thts wat the christians hav always done to d jewish community massacre,kill,plunder kill d same community in wich thr supposedly mythical god was born,wat an irony i must say,this stuff can only be done by believers
Actually there's little evidence to suggest that Hitler was devoutly religious. Hitler persecuted Roman Catholics in Germany, so what does that fucking tell you? Roman Catholics FLED Germany to other parts of Europe. And for fucks sake youre doing it again! You're PROVING MY POINT AGAIN! PEOPLE TWIST RELIGION TO SUIT THEIR OWN ENDS. You keep proving my point that it's PEOPLE twisting religion, PEOPLE are causing this destruction.
@TheDarkFrontier well an atheist has no reason to hate jews,a christian or a muslims has every reason to hate jews,jews wer nt killed coz of thr control of german finances,for 200 0years christians bashed jews after every easter sermon jews were assembled nd killed en masse as christ killers,2000 years of jew hating is what led to d final solution,historically its christians who hav killed jews d most nt d muslims,nd it will nevr come to an end coz all this stuff is written in sacred scriptures
What a shame humanity enslaved by man via religon!!!
MrDestruction25 1 day ago
They called the Chinese the salves to but now they are No. 2 in the world.
flagship21 2 weeks ago
The Byzantines were Hellenes despite the fact that they called themselves Romans. Greeks call themselves Romans sometimes too, with the name Romioi.
Anna Comnena calls her uncle as a new Hercules, so of course the Byzantines saw themselves as descendants of the Greeks, of Hercules, odysseus etc, while they hated the Latins and Rome was always rival against Constantinople.
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@Zorro11144 Rome was the new capital of the Pope of course the Byzantines hated them.
Constantine and Justintine still wanted the empire back despite the nationalites of Greek and latin.
MrBsct 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct Justinianus thought that Greeks and Romans were the same nation and he stated that both of them descend from Lycaon. Overall Byzantium was a Greek empire because the official language and culture was Greek and all ethnicities were under Greek influence.
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
The biggest reason Western Europe like the Vikings and Germans referred to them as Greeks because they wanted to be Romans. Charlamene called himself a "Roman emperor" and the Holy Roman empire was considered the sucessor of the empire even though it wasn't. Greeks still called themselves Roman.
I don't really care which culture was more closer to the Byzantines to my opinion it was a mixture but a highly doubt the Byzantines would give up their legacy of how the Eastern Empire formed.
MrBsct 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct Neither the Holy Roman empire or the Byzantine were latin, the first was German and the second was Greek.
Zorro11144 2 weeks ago
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@Zorro11144 you don't have to be Latin to be Roman... Being a Roman doesn't mean you can't German. Since 212 all the free men of the oecumene (Roman empire) were named civites Romani (Roman citizens): Greeks, Spaniards, Egyptians, Thracians etc. Roman didn't mean the man who comes from Rome.
MrBsct 2 weeks ago
Damn you Constantine!
Blackmage4001 3 weeks ago
Got it now?
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@Zorro11144 DEEEESTROOOYYYEEEED
Technosauce 3 weeks ago
@Zorro11144 Does it matter that some emperors and historians saw them as hellenstic? The are just as many emperors like Justintine and Belisarias wanted the empire back and stuck on to Rome's custom's and traditions. If they were more Greek why don't they change their name and goverment style like the Sassanids did when they overthrew Parthia?
Constantine was Greco serbian. He was more concerened of a united Rome under a
religion rather than what nationality is superior.
MrBsct 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct Our name was Roman but we were Hellenes. You will never understand the mentality. The Byzantines hated the latins, the empire was Greek and not Latin. Byzantium was not like it was the Roman empire during the time of Emperor Dioclitianus.
Constantine the great was Greco-Thracian and his mother saint Helen was Greek.
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
ALL BYZANTINES TOMBS HAVE GREEK DNA.
THE BYZANTINES ARE GREEK PEOPLE
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Constantine more likely saw a 'sundog' (parhelion) or solar halo than a meteorite. The vision involved or resembled the sun and resembled a cross. He seems to have had a special devotion to the Sun God from early in his life and only gradually come to identify him with Christ.
Oswulf1 1 month ago
What series is the from? Are the DVDs available in the US and Canada or only the UK and Europe?
Bass60thrar 1 month ago
Rome was never able to find a balance between the power of the four big social groups: the state, the propertied aristocracy, the army, and the people.
How it stood toward the end of the Western Empire, basically it only took one group to co-opt another (the aristocracy gets angry at government taxation and co-opts the army, the government co-opts the people with promises of land and bread, etc) and then the other two groups are forced to align, and it's civil war.
Crosmando 1 month ago
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MegaImran109 1 month ago
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pucksterz12 1 month ago
Excelente película documental sobre el ascenso al poder de Constantino el Grande.
FuegoEternoyPoder 1 month ago
"City of our fathers"
Wasnt Constantine born in Illyricum or something?
AugustusOctavianus8 2 months ago
@AugustusOctavianus8 constantine was born at Naissus, in Upper Moesia.
MrPeletut 1 month ago
this romans looked liked barbarians or sassanid persian?
punisherot 2 months ago
The quality of the legions declined mainly because Rome began to hire more auxiliaries or non-romans to fight for her. As foreigners and mercenaries made up a larger percentage of the legions, the standards of their equipment and, more importantly, dicipline and supply slacked. The armies that fought under trejan would not be matched anywhere in the world until Napoleon instituted his corps system
PatrickEngSU 2 months ago in playlist Ancient Rome The Rise and Fall of an Empire
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@PatrickEngSU why would they hire mercenaries instade of training roman soldiers as they always did
DaimyoNovagawa 1 month ago
They are still the Roman legions. Before Constantine was emperor, the Roman army was reformed under Diocletian. I think what we see here is the usage of mail armor and a long sword with oval shields. Different from the old imperial legions.
Generally the troops are lower quality in the late Roman army, however, the professional body under Constantine, the Comitatenses are as good and disciplined as the previous generations of Roman soliders. Moreover, Constantine is an apt tactician.
ConstantineJoseph 2 months ago
Constantin converted to Christianity first on his dead bed! And Christianity as religion was introduced in the ERE by decree!
Grimasasmijeha 2 months ago
at 8.00 constantine got pumped
StrathendrickPiper 3 months ago
I find it funny how people will always try to prove that their religion is so great but yet somehow it is in the midst of so many wars through history and now. To try to explain something so rightous but is responsible for so many death is hypocritical.
EBKCuz 3 months ago
Mihí dicendum est, antiqua contentió, utrum Byzantium Rómanus aut Græcus erat, ad finem temporis extendet, sed satis dicere est fata Rómanórum Deum eós ostendit cursum ad victoriam erat pér illum signum arcanum. Si successorés Constantiní conservávissent ipsí consilia súa Rómæ...
CminorMaxG 3 months ago
THE BYZANTIUM IS GREEK
unfukkkmee 3 months ago
@unfukkkmee The people of the empire were culturally Greek and mostly spoke Greek, but the Byzantine emperors, at least, saw themselves as Roman and while the empire existed both its contemporaries and itself called it the Roman Empire.
englishfrenchgerman 3 months ago
@englishfrenchgerman I KNOW THE ANGLO-GERMAN JEALOUSY AGAINST THE GREEKS.
LISTEN TO ME.
THE ANCIENT Romans HAVE GREEK BLOOD, IF U CHECK, THE GRAVE OF ANCIENT ROMAN, YOU WILL SEE GREEK DNA IN ROMAN SKELETONS. AND, THE BYZANTINTES ARE GREEKS.
unfukkkmee 3 months ago
WHY ARE YOU SO AGAINST GERMANS? IF YOU ARE SO CONFIDENT ABOUT YOUR SUPERPOWER, WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME YOU FOUGHT GERMANS? WE ARE ALL BROUGHT IN THIS WORLD WITH DIFFERENT POLITICAL BELIEFS AND CULTURES. IT'S NOT LIKE GREEKS ARE GOING TO RISE UP AGAIN INTO A SINGLE EMPIRE AGAIN. GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE. RESPECT HISTORY AND LETS NOT REPEAT IT!
Who cares if the Byzantines are greek in blood? They serve a Roman flag. Washington is Europeon but an American hero. Napoleon is Corsican but a French hero.
MrBsct 3 weeks ago
@englishfrenchgerman FASCIST MEANING = HE WHO TRIES TO PASS ONE GNOME
unfukkkmee 3 months ago
@englishfrenchgerman i am sorry to disapoint you but you can visit any Greek village and meet old people to see that they still call themselves Romaioi (which means romans) and mean greek.Greek people (citizens not only emperors) used to call themselves Romans because they considered themselves the new owners of the empire, the new Romans, and didn't recognise inhabitants of city of Roman as Romans.The byzantine empire's predominant nationality was Greek.
brennusduxgallorum 3 months ago
@englishfrenchgerman The easter Roman empire was only Roman by the name and Greek in its substance. Also Constantine the great was Greek by his mother and Thracian by his father from Moesia.
Zorro11144 3 months ago
@Zorro11144 who gives a shit if Byzantines and Constitine are Greek in genetics. They are Greeks under a Roman flag and their political history goes back to Italy not the Hellens or the Classical states. Washington had Europeon blood but no one cares. Napoleon is Corsican not French...nobody gives a shit either, he's a French hero.
Rome was influenced by Greek culture...I'll give you that.
MrBsct 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct An identity of an empire or of a state is always important. The Byzantine empire was a Greek empire because its culture and language was Greek. After the 7th century the dominant population of Byzantium was Greek. It was only Roman by the name and Greek in its substance. Also the Holy Roman empire was called Roman but it was a German empire.
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@Zorro11144 So America is a British nation because when it was founded it was using British language and British culture? Was the Macedonian empire a Persian empire because most of the population was Persian? No, the nation's founders make the nation and the people of all DNA are offically their people,
Byzantines are Roman by name and substance, their politics, ideals, and line of rule come from Italy. Yes they are Greek but African too.
MrBsct 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct Byzantium was called also imperium Grarcorum, Thomas Akinates in a book of his writes a work for Byzantium with the tittle Contra Errores Graecorum.
Nicetas Choniates insisted on using the name "Hellenes", he states that he cannot continue in writting history, which is one of the greatest inventions of Hellenism and he stressed out the outrages attacks of the "Latins" against the "Hellenes" in the Peloponessus.
Nicetas Choniates, "The Sack of Constantinople", 9 '¦Å, Bonn,pp.806
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct Emperor John III Ducas Vatatzes (1192-1254 AD), wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation"and states that Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors.
John Vatatzes, "Unpublished Letters of Emperor John Vatatzes", Athens I, pp.369--378, (1872)
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct Theodore II Lascaris (1222-1258), was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes... What do you, O Italian, have to display?"
Theodore Lascaris, "Christian Theology", 7,7 & 8
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct In the 14th cent AD Nikolaos Kavasilas calls Greeks the scholars of Thessaloniki, and the city as "house of Hellenism". Nicephorus Blemmydes referred to the Byzantine emperors as Hellenes. Theodore Alanias (in 1204) wrote in a letter to his brother that "the homeland may have been captured, but Hellas still exists within every wise man".
Nicephorus Blemmydes, "Pertial narration", 1, 4
Theodore Alanias, "PG 140, 414"
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct The neo-platonic philosopher George Gemistos Plethon (15th cent AD) stated "We are Hellenes by race and culture".
George Gemistus Plethon, "Paleologeia and Peloponessiaka", pp.247
The scholar, teacher, and translator, John Argyropoulos (15th cent AD) calls John VIII Palaiologos as a Greek king and addresses him as "Sun King of Hellas".
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct While the vikings saw the Byzantines as Greeks.In their runestones which are being called as Greece runestones, they recorded the Byzantine empire as a Greek empire.
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
@MrBsct "On these runestones the word Grikkland ("Greece") appears in three inscriptions, the word Grikk(j)ar ("Greeks") appears in 25 inscriptions, two stones refer to men as grikkfari ("traveller to Greece") and one stone refers to Grikkhafnir ("Greek harbours"). Constantinople is being mentioned by the Norse as Miklagard which means the big city.Rune inscriptions are even to be found inside the Hagia Sophia temple and were made by the Varangian troops who served in the Byzantine army.
Zorro11144 3 weeks ago
Roman soldiers in mail armors???WTF?
brennusduxgallorum 3 months ago
@brennusduxgallorum
Yes, that is what they used in this point of time. The Lorica Hamata was the most used type of armor by the Romans. The Lorica Segmentata was used between the first and third century but in the later years it was not common. This happened during the later years.
LuciusCorneliusMacro 3 months ago
@LuciusCorneliusMacro to be honest i didn't know these facts, thanks for the info.
brennusduxgallorum 3 months ago
@brennusduxgallorum
It's my pleasure :).
Remember never to trust History Channel as a reliable source of information. History Channel prefers whats cool over what's true.
LuciusCorneliusMacro 3 months ago
@LuciusCorneliusMacro yep, thats true:).
brennusduxgallorum 3 months ago
I gotta take a dump, when I come back this comment better be top rated.
Make it happen people
ConTheGreat508 4 months ago
It's curious... that ancient cristianism did not believe in pagan rites or beliefs... but they kept the supersticious ideology from their "pagan enemies".
rozenkreuz4 4 months ago
@zia685 Christianity is not evil, we humans were given a great gift and destroyed it
cartman2792 5 months ago
@cartman2792 Yes
MognarMokasin 5 months ago
@cartman2792 Thank you Draco
NearVSMello 5 months ago
@NearVSMello lol i was starting to wonder when someone would figure out the reference
cartman2792 5 months ago
@cartman2792
you have any evidence for that claim?
lopeyschools 4 months ago
@lopeyschools Ya there in the history books of all the civilizations in the world we've been shedding blood b4 Jesus and were still shedding blood now, and while some of them have been for religious reasons most of them was because of land, gold, or fame.
cartman2792 4 months ago
the romans were strong with their old religion, when they took christanity, the empire fell apart, should have not adopted this evil religion
zia685 5 months ago
@zia685 Someone call the historians! Call the scholars! Call all the academics! Tell them to stop working. zia685 has found the answer to why Rome fell! Jesus did it!
NearVSMello 5 months ago
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Constantine the Great was undoubtedly the greatest Illyrian warrior-emperor of Rome, the founder of Christendom. He was of Albanian and not of Serbian, or any other Slavic origin, because the Slavs moved to the Balkans in the 5th century. Greek author Critoboulos of Imbros (15th cent) calls Albanians led by Scanderbeg Illyrians.
timlezi 5 months ago
He was Illyrian like my forefathers -
PROUD TO BE ALBANIAN = DESCENDANT OF ILLYRIANS !
IllyriPower 5 months ago
Back then to follow Jesus Christ was considered to be following a criminal an outlaw and a rebel it was a disgrace hence why it was an underground religion. The Romans had conquered most of the world with their old Gods so to follow a new one was considered not Roman, this was the most civilised empire in the known world there was plenty of written sources like mentioned unlike the dark ages which followed later.
hack969british 5 months ago
@hack969british The fact that the holy book of christianity was compiled on the initiative of a Roman politician, whose sole purpose was to keep the Roman empire together, is evidence that the bible is just a human concoction. There is no evidence for the salvation story.
ndzoko 5 months ago
So was he a good person or bad?
BayAreaOrBust 5 months ago
Not likely, my friend. More likely that it really happened. There is no such thing as a "reliable historian" who doesn't have a personal opinion to push. Who's going to judge who's "reliable?" There were thousands of people who knew about this event at the time, and it has always been believed until this present time when we Moderns like to think we're so much smarter than people used to be. If oral history among ancient tribes is reliable, why isn't it also reliable with Christians? It is!
TheCid100 5 months ago
Does anyone know what happened that turned the mighty Roman Legions into this? Cause im pretty sure that one legion from Vespasians time would have smashed Constatine's entire army into bits
cartman2792 6 months ago 19
@cartman2792 The Roman Empire was severely divided during Constantine's time.
Cable3999 5 months ago
@cartman2792 I doubt you are correct. Constantine was a militarily brilliant...he never lost a battle. In terms of leadership, both were fantastic, but Constantine used a different tactic every battle and his enemies were never able to keep up with him.
truthforchrist 5 months ago
@truthforchrist Your correct i meant to say the actually army rather than Constantine
cartman2792 5 months ago
@cartman2792 They used too much Auxilia, and Romans get lazy, and so they sucked at fighting. Still, they got best army in the world.. Is that telling how strong they were? (if it didn`t, it should)
TheRomanRuler 4 months ago
@cartman2792 By this point in history, Rome was accepting almost anyone into its ranks as citizens. These people were not royal to Rome as the natural born citizens were. This was strictly for the purpose of keeping enough people in the army to defend themselves from Barbarian incursions. Their unit cohesion, quality of arms and training rapidly declined as a result.
CrystalHunter1989 3 months ago
@cartman2792 empire was in decline and runing out of money to train the army like it used to. To expensive to equip every soldier with the segmented armor and shield of the classic age.
johnkerry7 3 months ago
@cartman2792 I know exactly what you mean. Kind of conservative in their dress aren't they?
Noodles37UK 3 months ago
@cartman2792 they stopped to eat at a burger king than they dissapeasred ... :/
Davidt963 2 months ago
@cartman2792
According to wikipedia (because I don't know either) Lamellar is too hard to maintain, & it has something to do with their vassals thinks it's "unequal" & it shows how they are the 2nd class & stuff
KubernetePirata 1 month ago in playlist Ancient Rome The Rise and Fall of an Empire
@cartman2792 Answer...The legions structure had changed. It was no longer commanded by Rome but by nobles/generals and as the year dragged on it was less about trying to keep quality armed and trained soldiers then having soldiers period. Legionares were soldiers of the state in some manner. These "legions" were merely private armies.
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@cartman2792 This happened due to the mixing of other inferior cultures like the gauls and germanics. The same will happen to europe and america if we allow further immigration and multi-culturalism but fear not for Romes return will come about soon.
NewRome101 1 month ago
Kind of a lame actor playing Constantine.
Meh...
TheLoyalOfficer 6 months ago
cut your nails
spartanf34 6 months ago 18
Constantine was High Priest of the Unconquered Sun until his death. He was a usurper not in the running. He changed his anti-Christian predecessor's reforms only to replace military Mithraism as State Religion with more universal Christianity. He restored one-man rule choosing the successor from Diocletian's collegiate system of dual Augusti training dual Caesares to replace them. That system was capable of extension to more Augusti and more Caesares. The Byzantine Empire was more repressive
Saiaton 7 months ago
@Saiaton Yeah but Diocletian's system did not even survive him stepping down (let alone dying!) The Tetrarchy was doomed from the start. Diocletian just turned Rome into a prison.
Someone like Constantine was bound to come along sooner or later.
TheLoyalOfficer 6 months ago
Yes, we do know for certain what they witnessed that day. There was a cross in the heavens, and a message - In this sign you shall conquer, or in Latin, In Hoc Signo Vinces. Why don't we simply accept what happened, instead of trying to believe that a falling meteor or some such thing somehow inspired men to put the symbol of Christ on their shields before fighting against pagan Rome? The lie is a lot harder to swallow.
TheCid100 7 months ago
@TheCid100 there are almost no reliable records of what went on during constantines rise to power. chances are the event in question never even happened, and that the whole story was later fabricated to explain why constantine suddenly converted his political war machine to christianity, which he almost certainly did in order to take advantage of its unifying properties and place himself as a profit, gaining unquestioning loyalty from the army, as well as fanatical zeal.
dw053408 6 months ago
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Byzantine1821 8 months ago in playlist acon
all western countries are christian so how is the west run by jews lol some people just speak out of there ass.
early christianity was influenced heavily by jewish traditions, it was the romans that turned christianity into a materialistic religion were the pope took all power and was only after money. henry the 8th went even further he created Protestantism and kept all the churchs money for himself, the only reason rome even took to christianity was becuz they saw profit in it.
69bumbaclat 8 months ago
@69bumbaclat JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE HELD THE MONEY AND DO IN FACT RUN HOLLYWOOD AND MOST OF THE PROPAGANDA MACHINES OR HAVE GREAT DEALINGS WITH
Mr911baby 7 months ago
@Mr911baby dont be silly, 2% of the population in america is jewish, if they really ran hollywood and the propaganda machines then they would have a much higher population.
69bumbaclat 7 months ago
@Mr911baby u sound exactly like the nazis when they turned the population against jews
rika294 7 months ago
@Mr911baby yeah they really are awesome :3
NegusNegest 6 months ago
thats pretty slow for a meteor
TheTokkin 8 months ago
A time when Jews didn't rule the world, God bless old Christendom. God damn this new Jewish world order of materialism, broken families, single mothers, women dressed like whores, homosexual marriage, debt laden life, war with no purpose, hedonism of every kind and above all utter Godlessness in the West.
theone1087 8 months ago
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@theone1087 "God damn this new Jewish world order of materialism, broken families, single mothers, women dressed like whores, homosexual marriage, debt laden life, war with no purpose, hedonism of every kind and above all utter Godlessness in the West." - YOU BLAME THIS ON THE JEWS?!?! What kind of anti-semitic fundamentalist christian are you, damn! You're the kind of people that ruin this world, SERIOUSLY! How short-sighted is your vision of reality, people like you shouldn't be allowed out!
panthamor 6 months ago
@theone1087 First of all read a book about evolutionary biology, then read one written by sam harris if you're cognitively capable of understanding words, 'cause the beliefs you're advocating are primitive/tribal 1st century B.C.
Grow up, read a scientific, thus empirically proven, book.
Damn I get goose bumps when I come about people like you, and not the good kind.
Give me one good reason why jews in particular are responsible for almost all the bad shit in the world?
panthamor 6 months ago
@panthamor To be clear, i'm not a jew but a buddhist.
panthamor 6 months ago
I remember watching these when I was off school, I actually learnt more at home. lol
Good upload, ah I love nostalgia.
paddymcgee1 8 months ago
FRANK!!!!!
JJoneEIGHTY 8 months ago
...Can someone explain what was up with the random meteor? x.x
thirion1850 8 months ago
@thirion1850 Aliens...
TheMadisonHang 8 months ago
if that old religion still exsisted i wonder how peta would feel about it......LOL
uberhaxor69 8 months ago
5:34 "The enemy of Rome will be defeated." A lot of these ancient oracles had double meanings. One emperor received a sign, he would destroy a great empire if he went to war; his own was destroyed.
idontgetno 9 months ago
The actor of constatine is from hot fuzz lol
maggiebarsha 9 months ago
Meh, he was smart. Seeing that many were already christians, he rallied them to fuel his ambition.
GnaReffotsirk 10 months ago
@GnaReffotsirk
He was a christian however he desired to be baptized in the river Jordan like Jesus!
pr0D3us 9 months ago
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pr0D3us 9 months ago
A lot of people disregard Christianity, that is because they are offended.
A religion that is no longer a minority religion in the Roman Empire, was preached by 1 single man. It wasn't Jesus, it was St Paul. His work entrenched Christianity for 300 years, undergoing heavy persecution.
The coming of Constantine and his vision (was a pagan believer prior), marked the end of persecution of Christians. This is a tremendously important turning point in all Europe.
dishwasherman83 10 months ago 2
@dishwasherman83 An unfortunate one though. An ideology that became a justification device for such joyeous times during the Dark Ages...
Ariminua 7 months ago
Before Constantine died, he requested to be baptized in the river Jordan.
He said it himself if he could live longer, he would be a much better Christian. Here we see him as a believer in Christianity.
dishwasherman83 10 months ago
I approve of THIS (7:52) and THIS (7:56). No wonder I am not a Christian.
Dantinus 10 months ago
A sign from god...LMAO Give me a fucking break. It was a damn meteorite....Dumb asses!
Laz24 10 months ago
@Laz24 Hindsight is 20/20 this was 316 A.D. Believe me, had you been alive in that time, you would have thought the same! You really don't get any points for being wiser about nature and the universe that people who've been dead for almost 1700 years...
goodgirlkay 4 months ago
@goodgirlkay And i supose you'd know better than me? lol I'm not trying to be rude or to disrespect you but we are far more advanced than they were back then. SO yes we are wiser in some ways when compraed to Constantine and others of his time. Just syaing :)
Laz24 4 months ago
this is so shit
rix145 11 months ago
@rix145 You're the one who is shit maybe?
heathey2 7 months ago
they r not true christian it means catholic is fake. true christian is who teaching the word of god preaching it like jesus did the roman dis is to conquest kill those disobeying them. christ is diff. those are fool.
x111tian 11 months ago
this civil war reminds me of the war between the 3 kindoms of china in 220-280 AD.
chazychaz14265 11 months ago
the emperors themselves fight battles?dont they have like commanders or generals for that?O.O
ulongkoror 11 months ago
@ulongkoror yes they do, but many emperors thought along side there soldiers
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jimmyfeta 11 months ago
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jimmyfeta 11 months ago
Thanks for the series. Brutal regard to the truth? Well worth watching the series.
barrychristianson 11 months ago
gee i didnt know they played rock music back then
fire5920 11 months ago
why are there so may indian people in this?
drugssexandtrumpets 11 months ago
@drugssexandtrumpets probably because its British and they couldn't find any Italians in the UK only south Asians as they needed 'brown' people.
BizWiz2000 11 months ago
is that eric idle:?!
celebrei 1 year ago
Catholicism is NOT Christianity...but I do think that God was involved in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
CDspartan21 1 year ago
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FilipH86 1 year ago
@CDspartan21 Nobody saw anything before the Battle, or at any rate not one of the 90,000 people there saw fit to mention it. Eusabius wrote two accounts covering this battle, and in the first there is only talk of a dream, and that was of the God Sol Invictus. His later 'Life of Constantine' mentions a grand vision of the Christian God (Eusabius was a bishop), but it's propaganda. Constantine worshipped every God available, and later regarded himself as a God.
gamesbok 1 year ago
Long live the Christian people. Fuck Turkey.
dakas12345 1 year ago
@dakas12345 ffuukk uu
Nabarawy5 1 year ago
@Nabarawy5 turkey suc*S
kashayarsha 1 year ago
@dakas12345 christian people don't swear or hate anyone
vaughangarrick 1 year ago
@vaughangarrick Tell That to the KKK big man
K1NGRHYZ 1 year ago
@K1NGRHYZ no, you nead to read dakas12345 post to understand in what context it was said---big man
vaughangarrick 1 year ago
@vaughangarrick If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
-Luke 14:26
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
-Luke 19:27
gamesbok 1 year ago
@gamesbok you clearly do not know your scriptures if you interprate that verse meaning that we must hate--it means man must forsake wickedness of the world wether it come from friends or family in order to follow the saviour----Christians are not supposed to hate anyone
vaughangarrick 1 year ago
@vaughangarrick 'What is good, and what is not good Phaedrus? Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?'
Socrates.
gamesbok 1 year ago
Apparently none of these historical figures during this time knew how to keep a facade around their subordinates. XD
Sibbot 1 year ago
Constantine was crowned ( against Maxentius) in England : )
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
i bet (non) christians and atheists cursed the name of Costa for cnturies.
antropopellazgu 1 year ago
a fairytale becomes d state religion of a murderous nazi lik regime,i really wonder people back then ever used thr brains,god is the only thin they lived for and committed genocides in its name
thescorpionking2020 1 year ago
@thescorpionking2020 You need to work on your ability to look at people from their own perspective. I don't know how much you know about history, but what you are talking about was the norm of the time, and if we judge historical events only from a modern perspective, we won't understand what really drove people of the time. Besides, who knows which of the things we do today will the people of the future find mind boggling?
dovlinhos 1 year ago
@dovlinhos m understanding wat u r trying to say wat m sayin if only people used thr brains a little more back then,its not as if people didnt,there wer many intellectuals and atheists even back then but due to d power religion had over d masses and they way it was used they nevr came out wat m sayin is religion is dangerous and vicious as its history proves,we hav to kick it out
thescorpionking2020 1 year ago
@thescorpionking2020
It's that kind of attitude that encourages violence, massacres and war. You need to accept that some people hold different views than you.
TheDarkFrontier 1 year ago
@TheDarkFrontier dude i believe tht d world is enriched by differences,thr is no point nd no fun living in a world whr all people act nd believe the same thing,wat m sayin tht first of all dat religion is a delusion and it has a bloody history,thr r sum gud things in it no doubt but a delusion is still a delusion and we need to educate people against it,just coz it makes sum people haooy doesnt mean its true,religion is a poison 2 d human brain
thescorpionking2020 1 year ago
@thescorpionking2020
Oh and Atheism doesn't have a bloody history? Wars fought not out of religion have killed far more people than religion have ever done. Can't you see what a morally low thing you are playing about with? Educating people against something is called BRAINWASHING. Why can't you just let people make up their own fucking mind about religion, if they believe it fine, if they dont believe it fine. You extreme atheists are just as bad as religious extremists.
TheDarkFrontier 1 year ago
@TheDarkFrontier so u mean to say its fine to believe in 6 day creation myths,original sin,adam and eve nonsense,dead bodies rising,resurrections,if the violent extremists are removed,so u really tellin me dat?so u mean to say its fine if peple base thr lives on fairytales if those people who kill in d name of these fairytales are removed,i dunno how u cn actually even make tht point
thescorpionking2020 1 year ago
@thescorpionking2020
I can make that point because I'm not an ignorant fuck like you. You refuse to accept that some people are different than you. Eradicating entire ways of life is exactly the same thing that ignited the Second World War. Ever hear about a little thing called the Holocaust? 6 million were killed because they were different. If anyone should be eradicated its people who refuse to accept people who are different, like yourself. People like you drag society down.
TheDarkFrontier 1 year ago
@TheDarkFrontier people lik me uplift the society of delusions nt people lik u who believe in letting people believe in nonsense just bcoz it makes them happy,wat is false has to be exposed nd fought against it and arguements against it shown to others,so tht people stop basing thr lives on false doctrines and embrace reality,thr is nuthin gud about believing in 6 day creation myths,and non beliervers burning in hell 4 eternity they are evil beliefs
thescorpionking2020 1 year ago
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No people like you give society a bad name, people like me let people believe in whatever they want BECAUSE ITS THEIR FUCKING LIFE. Seriously, you are one petty ignorant sonofabitch, you've basically just refused to even look at what I'm saying and re-iterated your points in a shiny new wrapper, probably because you thought it was clever. People like you ignited wars, conflict, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. Yeah, people like you REALLY do the world a favour.
TheDarkFrontier 1 year ago
@thescorpionking2020
If you really believe that you want to "correct" the world of religion, then go back 70-odd years, get a job as in Hitler's Nazi cabinet, because with your fucked up morals you'd fit right in with them.
TheDarkFrontier 1 year ago
@TheDarkFrontier dun worry hitler was a jew bashing genocidal roman catholic lik roman catholics hav always been nd thts wat the christians hav always done to d jewish community massacre,kill,plunder kill d same community in wich thr supposedly mythical god was born,wat an irony i must say,this stuff can only be done by believers
thescorpionking2020 1 year ago
@thescorpionking2020
Actually there's little evidence to suggest that Hitler was devoutly religious. Hitler persecuted Roman Catholics in Germany, so what does that fucking tell you? Roman Catholics FLED Germany to other parts of Europe. And for fucks sake youre doing it again! You're PROVING MY POINT AGAIN! PEOPLE TWIST RELIGION TO SUIT THEIR OWN ENDS. You keep proving my point that it's PEOPLE twisting religion, PEOPLE are causing this destruction.
TheDarkFrontier 1 year ago
@TheDarkFrontier well an atheist has no reason to hate jews,a christian or a muslims has every reason to hate jews,jews wer nt killed coz of thr control of german finances,for 200 0years christians bashed jews after every easter sermon jews were assembled nd killed en masse as christ killers,2000 years of jew hating is what led to d final solution,historically its christians who hav killed jews d most nt d muslims,nd it will nevr come to an end coz all this stuff is written in sacred scriptures
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