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Colonizers the christians once and used against slaves and black people and people of other communities saying that it s ok to treat these people like animals because they don t have a soul like only the christian has a soul and cotton goes so far as to dream of a post humanistic one in which everything human has become superfluous post was if some people post humanism is interesting because i like imagining that the world continues to exist. and is very beautiful and wonderful without people and then it s absolutely not the end of the story that s perhaps my favorite thing to imagine. but if the world where one day is an cut in the magic then she as a human author would no longer exist. but a fun founder of the arts plus festival at the frankfurt book fair thinks that scenario is far fetched bombs what machine and why should machines act artistically when there are no humans to be interested in what they do make a force that never mind the fact that it s an utterly awful notion which ....
Politician. seeing an opportunity to unite eastern and western christians and solidify his place as a leader he calls a gathering together of christians, knights, and townspeop townspeople. they were told about the plight of the christians in the east who had had their lands concurred, horrible mutilations of nuns, clergy and pilgrims because of their faith. what urban did, which was very clever, rather than asking them to go and fight for the east, he also asked them to go all the way to jerusalem, to restore the land that had been taken by muslims. the response is amazing. people shout, god wills it. this is the moment that crusading begins across western europe. pope urban was an example of ....
bishops become important people in the local community. if people have disputes with each other, they were likely to go to a bishop to get it worked out. you had to go to him to get the food supply. that made him enormously wealthy and influential. he gives christians tax breaks and makes churches tax exempt. constantine is the reason why churches are now in the u.s. tax free entities. constantine is the reason why churches have this special status. from the time of constantine, the church became the ally of rulers, as rulers became christian. there was no feeling that there should be a separation between church and state. church and state work together. to honor his newfound faith, constantine commissioned spectacular building projects in ....
people started questioning his sanity, and his capacity to rule. he looks around for people that other people don t like. the most convenient people to blame it on are the christians. niero says these are the people who are the problem. they re the ones who set the place on fire. let s do terrible things to them. niero orders his soldiers to gather up asy chians as they can find. they are tied to poles and burned alive in his garden. he had some of them torn up by wild animals. it isn t long before peter is swept up in the raids. he s convicted of insurrection and sentenced to die on the cross. he is crucified upside down, which is a really horrible way to die. he says that he does not want to die the same way that his lord ....
Hell. so this became the battle cry for christians throughout the world. with the church unified after nysea, constantine looks to further stabilize the religious foundation of his empire. he establishes a second hub of church power in the east. he names the new capital after himself and calls it constantanoble. there s a bit of back and forth between roam and sk the christians in the et tend to look at the christians in the east as just barbarians. they would say the catholics in the west baptized their children in wolf saliva. the west erners look at the east as being not strong. the hierarchy of clergy under ....