Yup

Never was

God bless Constantinople. May the last of the Constantines rest in eternal glory and peace.

It's not like the Byzantines spent the remainder of their existence tearing themselves apart as the other European powers treated them relic

Because they were

What?

You’re just pulling shit out of your ass now

Throwing it like a damn ape

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Byzantine_revolts_and_civil_wars

There's a reason the turks rolled them

>Most were by Jews, Barbarians, and other outside forces

Not surprising in the least

In any case that doesn’t make the state inherently materialistic

The state was deeply Christian. That is a fact.

What the fuck are you talking about it was the centre of trade in the east

Of course it was decadent

Having good trade doesn’t make you materialistic

You absolute retard

>Making and acquiring currency doesn't make you materialistic

I'm the retard here clearly

Indeed you are

Sick comeback dude

Having wealth does not make you materialistic

If you have wealth you will want more

It is what you do with said wealth that makes you materialistic

That is the nature of having wealth

Not at all

>fascist
>reactionary
>christian

yikes.

read marinetti

No

No that would be a differing opinion

Also going back to the Civil wars for a second do you not know what a fucking civil war is?

It wasn't just barbarians, Jews, and outside forces

It was themselves mostly

Do you not realize that the Romans had taken over Jewish and Barbarian territories, and were quite prone to revolts?

Shit happened very often in Roman times

Yeah and

They very famously forced assimilated the celts

And massacred the jews

Why do you deny history?

You can actually just read this shit