@kaleumeleu37968 Concerning the second point, I contend that this applies only to civilians.
If you are of the military, I advise you not attempt to disguise that fact, for looters will avoid the military as hyenas avoid the lion.
Kristianity is not more moral; it is considerably less so.
Its teachings on kinship and the bond between partners further illustrate its corruption. Kristians hold that the joining of man and woman is lawful only for the begetting of children and not for the making of love. It exalted lifelong abstention from marriage as a higher state than the married life, an abominable matter. It treats desire itself, outside the narrow purpose of offspring, as a disorder to be restrained or extinguished.
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Anabaptists, the precursors of modern Baptists, were persecuted by Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists alike. The principal offences of the Anabaptists were to call for social reform, to favour adult baptism over infant baptism, and to embrace pacifism: they would not kill, condone capital punishment, or serve in armies. They also allegedly advocated ancient Antinomian views. Their leaders died in various ways.
Thomas Münzer was burned at the stake in 1525.
Feliz Manz drowned in 1526; drowning was a favoured method of executing Anabaptists because of their views on baptism.
Michael Sattler had his tongue cut out, was mutilated by red-hot pincers, and was burned alive in 1527 for a range of beliefs, none of which would now merit a criminal prosecution.
When a whole town, Münster, went over to the Anabaptists in the 1530s, Roman Catholics and Protestants joined forces to retake the city. The Anabaptist leaders were publicly tortured to death with red-hot pincers and their bodies put on public display outside a church.
No, all faiths are inferior to Heathenry and the worship of Óðinn and considerably less morale.
Kristianity and all abrahamic faiths are Surtr-worship, the worship of Ruinous Powers and I can point to how kristians treat each other as but one of many examples of its demented and corrupted nature.
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Despite the persecutions of kristians under Heathen Rome, once kristians held the power of the state, they turned the edge of that power upon one another with a thoroughness that pagan Rome never matched.
From the first kristian emperor onward, the number of kristians who died at the hands of fellow kristians well exceeded those who died under earlier pagan rulers.
The historical record is resplendent with atrocities committed by kristians against kristians. For this reply, two accounts shall suffice.
First, the Piedmontese massacre, better known as the Piedmont Easter, in which some 1,700 Waldensian men, women, and children were hanged or crucified upside down. Variation in the manner of killing occurred in other towns. Some were maimed and left to die of starvation. Some had strips of flesh cut from their bodies until they bled to death. Some were stoned.
Some were impaled alive upon stakes or hooks. Daniel Rambaut had his toes and fingers cut off in sections, one joint amputated each day in an attempt to make him recant and accept the Roman faith. Some had their mouths stuffed with gunpowder, which was then ignited. Paolo Garnier of Roras was castrated, then skinned alive. Children were killed in various ways before the eyes of their parents.
During a later crusade, monks belonging to the Greek Church were burned at the stake in Cyprus for refusing to adopt Roman practices. When the western crusaders took Jerusalem in 1099, they dispossessed the Orthodox Patriarch and his clergy from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Orthodox priests refused to hand over their treasured piece of the “True Cross” to the new Catholic Patriarch, so he tortured them until they revealed its location.
You have a sacred obligation to the next generation. They must have a homeland, a people, and a reason to exist.
You aren't only carrying the weight for yourself and yours. You are being forced to carry generations of FAILURE and BETRAYAL - the accumulated rot of those who shirked their duties.
You have burdens that are unfair, that you shouldn't have to carry...but carry it you must.... we all must carry it and fight... we are the remainders... the vanguard.
The question concerns not capacity, but the steadfastness of one's devotion to the faith.
To take a Christian spouse is to accept that your Heiðin faith shall not be passed onward and your practice stymied.
The spouse must, at the lowest, be atheistic or agnostic, and open to the old ways.
@ceanndach@VidarOdinsonX@KENNYKANCELLED Asatru and the Troth stand as representative of true Heiðnir as this stands of the Kristians.
Although the Vatican has advanced by measured steps toward the acceptance of LGBTQ.
The original poster elected the path of barring my speech in the custom of the typical leftist, rather than the facing of any among the numerous atrocities that I laid at his feet. All of which stand as Kristians bearing violence toward their own.
Despite the persecutions of kristians under Heathen Rome, once kristians held the power of the state, they turned the edge of that power upon one another with a thoroughness that pagan Rome never matched.
From the first kristian emperor onward, the number of kristians who died at the hands of fellow kristians well exceeded those who died under earlier pagan rulers.
The historical record is resplendent with atrocities committed by kristians against kristians. For this reply, two accounts shall suffice.
First, the Piedmontese massacre, better known as the Piedmont Easter, in which some 1,700 Waldensian men, women, and children were hanged or crucified upside down. Variation in the manner of killing occurred in other towns. Some were maimed and left to die of starvation. Some had strips of flesh cut from their bodies until they bled to death. Some were stoned.
Some were impaled alive upon stakes or hooks. Daniel Rambaut had his toes and fingers cut off in sections, one joint amputated each day in an attempt to make him recant and accept the Roman faith. Some had their mouths stuffed with gunpowder, which was then ignited. Paolo Garnier of Roras was castrated, then skinned alive. Children were killed in various ways before the eyes of their parents.
During a later crusade, monks belonging to the Greek Church were burned at the stake in Cyprus for refusing to adopt Roman practices. When the western crusaders took Jerusalem in 1099, they dispossessed the Orthodox Patriarch and his clergy from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Orthodox priests refused to hand over their treasured piece of the “True Cross” to the new Catholic Patriarch, so he tortured them until they revealed its location.
Anabaptists, the precursors of modern Baptists, were persecuted by Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists alike. The principal offences of the Anabaptists were to call for social reform, to favour adult baptism over infant baptism, and to embrace pacifism: they would not kill, condone capital punishment, or serve in armies. They also allegedly advocated ancient Antinomian views. Their leaders died in various ways.
Thomas Münzer was burned at the stake in 1525.
Feliz Manz drowned in 1526; drowning was a favoured method of executing Anabaptists because of their views on baptism.
Michael Sattler had his tongue cut out, was mutilated by red-hot pincers, and was burned alive in 1527 for a range of beliefs, none of which would now merit a criminal prosecution.
When a whole town, Münster, went over to the Anabaptists in the 1530s, Roman Catholics and Protestants joined forces to retake the city. The Anabaptist leaders were publicly tortured to death with red-hot pincers and their bodies put on public display outside a church.
Translating the Bible into vernacular languages, or aiding the printing of such versions of the Bible, was heresy according to the Roman Church.
In Europe, women were buried alive for this offence. Men were burned alive. One printer in Paris was burned on a pyre of his own books. In the 16th century William Tyndale translated the Bible into English. In danger of arrest and in fear for his life he fled the country. He was arrested in the Netherlands, and in 1536 he was executed for heresy for agreeing with the Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith.
In 1482, under Pope Sixtus IV, two thousand heretics were burned in the tiny state of Andalusia alone. Pope Leo X condemned Martin Luther in 1520 for daring to say that burning heretics was against the will of God. Evidently he judged it presumptuous for an ordinary mortal human to claim to know the will of God. Perhaps he was right, because Luther changed his mind in 1531 and began to advocate the death penalty for heretics and blasphemers. He held that it should be a capital offence to deny the resurrection of the dead or the reality of Heaven and Hell.
@ConsciousPhilo_ Copper engraving by Jan Luyken from the 1685 edition of the Martyrs' Mirror.
This woman is about to be burned alive in Amsterdam in 1571 for the crime of believing in adult baptism.
Tied to a ladder, she will be tipped face first into a fire.
Even the Knights Templar stood accused of heresy in the early years of the 14th century! The charges are widely acknowledged to have been fabricated by King Philip of France, driven by his designs to seize the wealth of the Order. A church council was summoned to weigh the matter. Despite extensive torture of the accused, the evidence proved insufficient to proceed against the Templars and still less to condemn them! When King Philip arrived with an army at his back, Pope Clement V, a puppet of the French, compelled the unwilling council to reverse its course. The Order was dissolved.
Clement had already permitted Templars throughout western kristendom to be tortured and burned as heretics to thereby appease the king. Under torture the Templars confirmed that they rendered feudal homage to the kristian devil. This affirmation proved largely responsible for the belief that organised groups of people worshipped satan in the same manner that kristians worshipped God. That belief in turn proved largely responsible for the transformation of witches into malignant agents of the devil.
In the year 1252, Pope Innocent IV issued the bull Ad extirpanda. This decree explicitly authorised the use of torture, the seizure of goods, and execution upon minimal evidence against those judged heretics. The inquisitors, bound by papal command to show no mercy, administered or directed these measures. Cords tightened as tourniquets. The rack dislocated limbs.
Thumbscrews crushed bone. A spiked iron chair heated until it glowed. Feet roasted over open fire or shattered in the boot until marrow spouted forth. Instruments of torment were sprinkled with holy water, for the proceedings were conducted for the greater glory of God. Whole families faced accusation. Denial invited prolonged agony. Confession, extracted under duress, sealed death or ruin. This was not the act of a single rogue cleric. It was the formal, permanent institution of the Inquisition under a pontiff who made murder and mutilation a legal instrument of the church against fellow kristians who dissented.
This is but one of a vast volune of accounts to which I can reference. This account is set forth by a report by a Peter Liegé:
"Little children were torn from the arms of their mothers, clasped by their tiny feet, and their heads dashed against the rocks; or were held between two soldiers and their quivering limbs torn up by main force. Their mangled bodies were then thrown on the highways or fields, to be devoured by beasts. The sick and the aged were burned alive in their dwellings. Some had their hands and arms and legs lopped off, and fire applied to the severed parts to staunch the bleeding and prolong their suffering. Some were flayed alive, some were roasted alive, some disemboweled; or tied to trees in their own orchards, and their hearts cut out. Some were horribly mutilated, and of others the brains were boiled and eaten by these cannibals. Some were fastened down into the furrows of their own fields, and ploughed into the soil as men plough manure into it. Others were buried alive. Fathers were marched to death with the heads of their sons suspended round their necks. Parents were compelled to look on while their children were first outraged [raped], then massacred, before being themselves permitted to die."
Despite the persecutions of kristians under Heathen Rome, once kristians held the power of the state, they turned the edge of that power upon one another with a thoroughness that pagan Rome never matched.
From the first kristian emperor onward, the number of kristians who died at the hands of fellow kristians well exceeded those who died under earlier pagan rulers.
The historical record is resplendent with atrocities committed by kristians against kristians. For this reply, two accounts shall suffice.
First, the Piedmontese massacre, better known as the Piedmont Easter, in which some 1,700 Waldensian men, women, and children were hanged or crucified upside down. Variation in the manner of killing occurred in other towns. Some were maimed and left to die of starvation. Some had strips of flesh cut from their bodies until they bled to death. Some were stoned.
Some were impaled alive upon stakes or hooks. Daniel Rambaut had his toes and fingers cut off in sections, one joint amputated each day in an attempt to make him recant and accept the Roman faith. Some had their mouths stuffed with gunpowder, which was then ignited. Paolo Garnier of Roras was castrated, then skinned alive. Children were killed in various ways before the eyes of their parents.
During a later crusade, monks belonging to the Greek Church were burned at the stake in Cyprus for refusing to adopt Roman practices. When the western crusaders took Jerusalem in 1099, they dispossessed the Orthodox Patriarch and his clergy from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Orthodox priests refused to hand over their treasured piece of the “True Cross” to the new Catholic Patriarch, so he tortured them until they revealed its location.