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that's fair, but I'm going to cop out on and say that's something they (and they alone) need to decide on. Anytime we've tried to eh..."Help" Europe all it's done is hurt both of us in the long run. Right now as an American I'm strict "America First." (potentially "America only")

I guess at the end of the day my viewpoint is this. Change is hard even in the best of circumstances. There was a reason why death before capture or surrender was a common thing among soldiers and civs all across the globe. It was better to die than to lose your since of identity however that...

yeah I think part of the reason why I'm so cautious about a monarch (Especially an absolute monarch) is that when I think of an absolute Monarch my mind goes to the Monarchs of the early bronze age kings/modern socialist dictators. not held accountable by oath and law but left to their own...

Personally, If It were me I'd put a mock guillotine or sword above the king (or lord's) throne with the following phrase scripted in Latin "Stipendium peccati mors.: ("For the wages of Sin is death") let it serve as a warning to the king.

And what keeps the king from doing the same thing? Good faith certainly doesn't do it. The heavens don't smite him. The nobility can prove to be complacent with a bribe. Why is it that when a cult leader can force hundreds thousands or even millions to die they are absolved from all earthly sin...

Are we sure that's a bad thing? Sometimes I wonder if more leaders could stand to learn a lesson in their own mortality. How many crimes against their own citizenry can they get away with and get just an angry letter at most.

This is a conversation for another thread, but I'll simply say this anything that is built with lies and is capable of shifting and evolving like the position of sand is destined to die. The church lost all credibility in my eyes when it became a political entity.

So are we just going to blame boredom and grass is greener mentally for modernity and not any sort of flaws within institutions that might cause people to rebel in the first place? "The devil made me do it?" No offense but you can't blame non-catholics for everything. Especially considering the...

To be fair the whole "Carnal Kingdom Vs. Spiritual Kingdom" was a debate that was there from the very start. Add to that the book of Revelations which is both prophecy AND attempts to describe things that are so alien It'd make Lovecraft slack jawed and you have a recipe for massive confusion...