Message from @Thundermark
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*"His emissaries also visited pre-schism Latin Rite Christian and Eastern Rite Christian missionaries.[citation needed] Ultimately Vladimir settled on Eastern Orthodox Christianity. **In the churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty;** but at Constantinople, where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: "We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth", they reported, describing a majestic Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia, "nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it." Vladimir was impressed by this account of his envoys.[12]"*
Oof. So much for the eternal German <:smugon:512048583806025739>
bastards both of you
Lmao
`"In 988, having taken the town of Chersonesos in Crimea, he boldly negotiated for the hand of emperor Basil II's sister, Anna.[20] Never before had a Byzantine imperial princess, and one "born in the purple" at that, married a barbarian, as matrimonial offers of French kings and German emperors had been peremptorily rejected. In short, to marry the 27-year-old princess to a pagan Slav seemed impossible."`
Confirmed Chad
The absolute state of women born after 1995
Vlad: "Basil, bro, you're gonna lemme marry your sister"
Basil: "I, uh... I'll have to think about it & get back to y-"
Vlad: "That wasn't a question."
Walt Disney wasn’t anti semitic
Just thought i’d point that out
`During his Christian reign, Vladimir lived the teachings of the Bible through acts of charity. He would hand out food and drink to the less fortunate, and made an effort to go out to the people who could not reach him. His work was based on the impulse to help one’s neighbors by sharing the burden of carrying their cross.[25] He founded numerous churches, including the Desyatinnaya Tserkov (Church, or Cathedral, of the Tithes) (989), established schools, protected the poor and introduced ecclesiastical courts. He lived mostly at peace with his neighbours, the incursions of the Pechenegs alone disturbing his tranquillity.[12]`
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Good guy Vlad
St Vladimir
A Saint of Orthodoxy
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`Upon the meeting with Muslim Bulgarians of the Volga, Vladimir found their religion unsuitable due to its requirement to circumcise and taboos against alcoholic beverages and pork`
no snip on snek
You guys alright if i post doom eternal spoilers?
*"Novgorod itself faced a pagan uprising as late as 1071, in which Bishop Fedor faced a real threat to his person; Prince Gleb Sviatoslavich broke up the crowd by **chopping a sorcerer in half with an axe.** [16]*"
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**OOOOH YEAH, NATURAL 20!**
**CONFIRMED CRIT!**
This is my favorite couple of scenes
Christian?
Cringe
Purely for what they reveal
Pagans: "You can't just come in here and mass baptize everyone!"
Prince Gleb: **haha, axe goes chop**
All abrahamists are cringe
Grats on following a judean religion
@Cryrosphere the one where they show the helmet?
Also. Alot of 'pagans' are just people with an abrahamist mindset who bash christianity as a part of youthful rebellion.
They're not 'pagans' in the sense that atheists aren't scientists
@Win Roe yeah where he actually talks
That sent shivers down my spine
I thought the voice was alittle cringe tbh but I loved the helmet reveal
> Also. Alot of 'pagans' are just people with an abrahamist mindset who bash christianity as a part of youthful rebellion.
@Malac True. A lot of them also have various serious metal/emotional/psych issues & LARPing in the woods pretending to be "witches" is their group therapy
I ran w/ a lot of "pagans" back in the day
It wasn’t cringe lol