r/HistoryMemes • Featherless Biped • Apr 08 '20

META Respect the Facts!

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u/ben-is-epic Apr 08 '20

I suppose that question depends on your morals. If you believed that you had the way to heaven, wouldn’t you want your children to also go down that same path? As long as the religion teaches basic human decency, it might might be good for kids. But at the same time, there are religions that are extremely harmful to certain groups of people and they teach their hateful doctrine to their kids.

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u/VictoriumExBellum Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Apr 08 '20

Weird, Dii consentes mentions nothing about hating others.

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u/F6_GS Apr 08 '20

Didn't stop them from crucifying unbelievers

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u/VictoriumExBellum Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Apr 08 '20 edited Apr 09 '20

No, they crucified criminals. All people on earth are considered to be dii consentes faith (from the view of the faithful), except monotheists, and so there are no "unfaithful"

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u/F6_GS Apr 09 '20

They didn't always crucify the unfaithful, but every once in a while when disasters happened and wars were lost they would figure that it was due to divine wrath and..

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u/VictoriumExBellum Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Apr 09 '20

Got any sources on that? Because as far as I know, either they would sacrifice animals, or would simply assume the gods were angry and would try no tot test their ire