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It's worth noting that: A. Trial by combat was all but dead by 1300 (and de jure illegal in the HRE) after trial by jury began being introduced in the early 1200s, disappearing within only 80 years after an alternative became available (the very last trial by combat in France took place in...

You can't really call yourself a Christian and simultaneously worry about the fulfillment of pagan myths. You might as well worry that the sun won't rise next morning since no more hearts are being offered to Huitzilopochtli, or that you'll come across the Gorgons and be turned to a statue, or...

Ignoring that whole argument ... What are the angels of the Huns, the Tocharians, the Ancient Egyptians, the Sumerians, the Gauls, the Hittites, the Indo-Greeks, the Visi- and Ostrogoths, the Etruscans, the Minoans, the Garamantes, et al doing these days? One would think they have nothing to do...

To be specific, the Chinese civil examination system started during the Tang (7th century) and took until the Song (10th century) to become fully prevalent. Clearly it was a great factor in Chinese culture and governance for more than a millennium; but said culture also existed more than a...

What he said was "the essences of the world's cultures are national angels". The only 'national angels' described in the Bible are actually demons. Solaris claims to be a Christian and hence to follow the Bible. QED. If he'd argued from a strictly neo-Platonist line he wouldn't have exposed...

I mean, he accidentally argued that all the world's cultures are demonic. And believes that "rule of one" is a viable political paradigm for anything above a small village ...

So you believe in Nietzche's eternal return. And the overwhelming testimony of the Scriptures, as presented in Deuteronomy and Daniel, is that the "national angels", save Michael who stands up for God's people, are actually demons working behind the scenes to manipulate them into idol-worship...

You see, cultures aren't exactly static things (one would think a person constantly decrying the cultural changes of the past few centuries would recognise this). They also, unlike humans, don't have immortal souls, nor are they passed down by physical descent. Considering that a communist...

No, since the present trends are going in precisely the opposite direction. "Putin is laying the groundwork for a restoration of the Tsar". No, he isn't. At best he's looking to put a chosen successor into power before he dies (said successor will likely lack the qualities that Putin himself...

You said that the Secretary-General of the CCP will become a figurehead emperor. Under the current holder of that post, who looks set to hold it for the foreseeable near-term future, it looks like the opposite is happening. Now what you said may eventually happen, but likely not for many decades...

Yes, Russia and China are allied currently (though China is clearly the more prominent part). It's true that their alliance is currently strong, but there are clear points that may cause the alliance to break, and circumstances may change in future. I also haven't seen you provide any evidence...

Well, at the least your analysis of the political happenings in China and Russia bears no resemblance to reality. Unless you really do think Putin is going to give up all the hard-earned power he fought for to a family of painters living in America and the UK, or the founder of an EU lobbying firm?

Meanwhile, China is eyeing thinly-populated Siberia and its wealth of resources while the neopagan lunatic Dugin rants incoherently and ineffectually about Russia conquering Xinjiang, Manchuria and Mongolia. Now Putin is too smart to actually pay attention to what that guy has to say beyond...