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[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Race plays a massive role obviously but again my point is that when these societies were profoundly Christian in a way that most people couldn't even imagine today they were successful and largely mono-ethnic/racial and that the decline of that homogeneity correlates quite well with the decline of religiosity which lends itself to the conclusion that it isn't Christianity that gave us what we see to today it's LACK of Christianity.

Explain why the same didn't happen with Ethiopia, the first kingdom to adopt Christianity

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Because there's no White people there.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

But they fully embraced Christ for millennia. Surely that would've had some positive effect? Which was better, Pagan Rome or Christian Ethiopia

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't understand the question? Better for whom?

You keep complaining about how Christianity killed millions of Europeans in other posts. Rome conquered and massacred as many Europeans as it could and 'civilized' them by ridding them of their own ethnic/tribal culture and replacing it with theirs just as you claim it was wicked for the Christian world to have done.

(BTW I don't agree with that impulse which I consider fundamentally semitic to endlessly kvetch about how this or that killed people. All ideas and all empires want to become dominant it's how they work.)

So by your own logic -- not mine -- shouldn't you be denouncing the Romans?

Also I think you're confusing me with someone who doesn't think race is a thing or significant which couldn't be further from the truth.

Truth be told I know very little about the history of Ethiopia so I'm not the person to ask about it.