"Every man and every nation has the sacred right to preserve their differences and their identity in the name of their future, and in the name of their past".
-Jean Raspail.
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gender is binary
white is right
family > everything
blood first
meat is good
the black sun warms the righteous
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French historians outraged by Ridley Scott portraying Napoleon as a tyrant be like...
Actual people who were military conquered by Napoleon, had a foreign ruler installing a random relative who knew nothing of the territory, installed a level of bureaucracy it's still hard to get rid of still today, destroyed monuments and infrastructures, stole artworks be like:
Tell me again: which European country was the one so feudal and with rules so strict and rulers so shitty that the people actually rioted and started a terror period?
You can have all the opinions you want about that movie and Ridley Scott's historical movies, but if your argument reaches defending Napoleon, maybe you should stop talking and read some books written in countries that were actually conquered by Napoleon.
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My big Hm is how the server is going to treat the Germans considering they’ve been completely sidelining Europe since the French joined
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Saint Stephen succeeded his father, Prince Bogdan II, as Prince of Moldavia on April 12, 1457 soon after the latter was murdered. He defended his country against the Turks, and he also built many churches and monasteries. (Painted Churches of Bukovina)
Saint Stephen the Great was a spiritual son of Saint Daniel the Hesychast (December 18), who told him that if he built a church after every battle he would be victorious in all his wars. Following Saint Daniel’s counsel, Saint Stephen won forty-seven battles and built forty-eight churches or monasteries. He also built the Putna Dormition Monastery in northern Moldavia in 1466 when Saint Daniel urged him to do so.
In 1476, Saint Stephen lost the battle of Razboieni to the Turks. He went to visit Saint Daniel at the Voronets Monastery to ask whether or not he should surrender the country to the Moslems. Saint Daniel told him not to surrender, because he would soon win a decisive victory. Saint Daniel also told him that after he had saved the nation, Stephen should build a monastery in honor of Saint George at that place. Having faith in Saint Daniel’s prophecy, Stephen went forth with his army and drove the Turks from the country.
Saint Stephen fell asleep in the Lord on July 2, 1504, and was buried at the Putna Monastery. He was glorified by the Orthodox Church of Romania in 1992.
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please dont spawn a bunch of unblockable discourse please dont spawn a bunch of unblockable discourse please d-
okay being serious, this is gonna be fun. team frye for life. ill see if i can make art for this fest but there's no guarantee. im just EXTREMELY happy this isnt a final fest
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'colonial christianity' bffr what the fuck are you on? like i said, stop trying to play saviour here.
dalit and bahujan people in india faced and continue to face systemic oppression at the hands of upper caste communities. when europeans came to mercifully civilize us all, they brought with them money.
many tribal and oppressed caste people--not unlike great grandfathers and grandmothers of my own family--saw colonizer money and benefits as a means of escape from material oppression (if i was at risk of being beaten up and lynched for daring to even enter the brahmin area of a village, i would take that money and education to give myself a more dignified life). in exchange they had to accept christianity.
if you're not from any part of south asia, you probably don't get AT ALL how pervasive the caste system is, how much of indian society is structured on it. do you understand the sheer amount of both structural and direct violence required to maintain caste hierarchies? even today? when most people in the world think of caste in india as something trivial and bygone?
as the second largest religious minority in this country, we form around a whopping 3% of the entire population. there's no denying that we started out by inheriting racist white colonial theology. however, we are not just passive receivers. dalit liberation theology and tribal theology have been growing movements within many denominations.
to this day, tribal christians in north and central india face the brunt of anti christian violence at the hands of upper caste hindus. this violence is undeniably caste based, shrouded in a good dose of hatred against religious minorities. entire towns torched, churches burned, people quartered and butchered, people burnt alive, people living in fear with their internet access cut off and mobile network turned off during major christian festivals.
this is of course just a snapshot.
my personal beliefs? doesn't matter. even if i dedicate my life to openly criticising everything wrong with christianity (and i am well aware of a lot that is wrong. i have a lot to say about it too) it won't matter. with the rise of hindu nationalism (many compare what's happening in india to a piece of history from the mid 20th century involving germany and a certain charismatic leader), religious minorities take even more heat than we did before, muslims in india unequivocally facing the worst of it all.
you tell me if i'm playing saviour or if i'm attempting to extend solidarity with a shared understanding of what it's like to be in a religious minority.
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