Message from @Maggie The Magpie
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They are known as fierce warriors, can snap into blind rage to where one man can take down a shield wall in his state of frenzy. The Teutonic Knights took on 2/3rds of the Slavic world and majority of the pagan world In one war, even fighting **Catholic** Poland who spearheaded the pagan coalition to end the Teutonic order.
If the Teutonic Knights started as monks, they ended as warriors on par with pagan berserkers.
We can sit here for hours and debate over the Semitic origin and the extent of its influence, but we’re getting no where by doing this tango.
Your previous argument is incredibly disingenuous to two cultures
The similarities end at warrior culture
Yes, and their legacy is on par.
But it isn’t saying they’re the same.
The principle behind it is that the traditions of old, the warrior culture can still thrive.
Christianity overall has evolved to not be the same as it once was.
It's ideals remain the same
The same as they were at its jewish inception
Least we forget, it was the warrior culture of (Celtic) Asturias that saved Iberia after the downfall of the Visigoths to stop the Moors.
It's subversive, entirely
I believe Christianity now as it was in Ancient Rome, fully European. It’s only sin being anti-Pagan to where it’s knowledge is lost or muddied.
If we strip away the pagan paranoia, Christianity’s main vice is gone and we’re only left with theology difference.
Wow bro
How long was Rome about before xtianity?
Depends, the City State? kingdom? republic?
If we look at religion then it’s a black and white my dude.
Rome survived another thousand years after Rome fell.
It survived up till 1453.
Constantinopolis is the crowning achievement of Christian Rome, it is the very beacon of Christian Europe’s accomplishment, power and prestige.
And now it’s still gone.
Built by the pagan Constantine, he is the first Roman emperor to covert to Christianity as in battle an angel showed him his symbol, the Chi Rho.
And now his city, is occupied.
How based
The Romans lasted from 753 BC - 1453 AD
Did you read my paragraph? I don't remember having it addressed
I did regarding the implementation of Christianity as the official religion.
Unless you’re exclusively talking about Western Rome.
I wouldn't count Byzantium
Byzantium is Rome, (Eastern) Rome.
It still is Rome by all counts and legality.
But (Western) Rome adopted Christianity in 380 AD. And it collapsed In 476 (or 480 depending on your historian).
Less than a century
Then you also have the “Kingdom of the Romans” or really just that one province named Soissons that was the official successor to western Rome, surviving up to 486.
That is if you wish to count Soissons as a piece of WRE due to legal purposes.