[Comte De St. Germain]

(09-26-2015 03:02 AM)KorbenDallas Wrote:  



Muslims are brainwashed into thinking everyone else is way more violent and evil than they are, especially in the past.

I talked to an Egyptian muslim a couple of months ago who tried telling me the Coptic Christians dying because of the Muslim brotherhood was "media propaganda".

Implying conquest was not a norm for the time period. Things like world peace are rather new concepts. Everyone wanted hegemony in that time period, and eventually Britain and the majority of Europe did have it over most of the world. They couldn't do it sooner because of military inferiority and inability to fight back as effectively.

Imperial nations just realized peace was much more profitable for them than war or arms racketeering(see opium trade, spice trade, and mercantilism) like the modern day military industrial complex. False dichotomies like this undermine the basic fact that power is universally wanted. There's a reason people like Caesar and Alexander the Great are considered heroes.

Edit: What I don't get is how a lot of you guys think that Christianity was even better at the time period. Would you say that half your lifestyles would have been acceptable in Catholic Spain or early Protestant England? Global culture has changed and agreed Islam has chosen to remain in the past. At the end of the day it's pushes towards secularism and rational thought that need to be promoted, and not dogmatic ideology believing that somehow irrational faith in Christian doctrine will magically create world peace with lots of hot bitches and fun. War and fights over influence/power have continued since time immemorial and will continue long beyond when we're all in the grave.