If you are a country with a GDP that is 1000 or 10000 times higher it will not be a problem.

Not to the early Christians it wasn’t. The early Christians movements (before they were co-opted by Empire) were radically egalitarian.

That would be irrelevant even if it was true. We are not in the second century. It is a very controversial position either way.

Egalitarian values certainly did emerge out of Christianity, and there was a change in that direction even then, but they were not egalitarian in the modern sense.

Also, please be careful when generalising early Christianty, as it was a very diverse group of sects that hardly agreed on anything.

Early religious communities sometimes were very accepting, and women played a role as well, but they still existed in a very patriarchal culture, so you should not expect their women to be equal to men in society, and there were absolutely positions of authority.

They opposed the empire because initially, they were not perceived by anyone as a group distinct from Jews, which were very hostile to it. However, there were appeals made by powerful Christians later to be recognized as a non-threat to imperial power, and ultimately, they succeeded.

Even so, the Jews simply wanted independence, not equality. The idea of social equality did not even exist then. They were equal in Christ, not in society.

Christianity was not coopted by the empire, it conquered it.

The idea that early christianity was somehow “more pure” I do not accept as well. I would say the Christian tradition has only been enriched over the years, and without a unified basic set of dogmas it would really make much sense.

You missed my point. Islands are irrelevant. Russia isn’t.

Your great argument has changed my mind. I now see that I was wrong. Thank you.

Lmao, what? Why even?

Well, even then, these islands are not significant geopolitical actors. And tarrifs will certinly not hurt the Russian economy, and I doubt they are going to help the US in terms of geopolitics.

Vive le dirt!!!

3 billion is nothing.

I wonder how much the EU imports.

Russia exports next to nothing to the US, but it does import things like electronics for obvious reasons.

Tarrifs on Russia will be pointless, really. Russia has been trading with Europe for the most part for obvious reasons until it fell out of favour. So this seems like manufactured outrage.

Well, it does not have an economy, so why would it have money?

Also, it doesn’t have politics and society in the conventional sense, but men are clearly subordinate to God. Christ is king, this is the way Christians think, so I am not sure this is a correct comparison.

The question of “should Christians strive for a classless society” is a complex one. Egalitarian ideals are very new compared to Christianity, but some Christians now think that in the “fallen world” authority is undesirable as it can be abused. This is not common though.

However, Marxism is an anti-religious ideology. Marxists both believe that religion will disappear after “the base” changes and it will become, ultimately, obsolete, and also have historically persecuted and enacted violence on Christians. So I am not surprised there are not many Marxist Christians.

Got twice as much as Jean Valjean. Absolutely hilarious.

Someone should sens him a copy of the book. I think it will resonate with him quite a bit.

Wtf Finland, how dare you make rational political decisions?

Well, during the enlightenment it existed in a Christian context. I do not see how one can disavow monotheism and accept hermericism, since other gods in it are hardly important to say the least.

I hate the sun.

Fuck that yellow bastard.

I would argue that the antireligious sentiments of “the left” and some liberals is a part of their civil religion.

Excuse me, is hermeticism not a monotheistic philosophy?

Acting is not about changing the appearance.

Race is relevant since it tells us quite a bit about someone and people of different races are and have historically been treated differently by society. Japanese people, for instance, were(still are) quite xenophobic.

Why not cast an african or a white person as the Emperor of Japan then? Can’t they act?

Let’s have a white Martin Luther King. Let’s make black people play slaveowners and whip other blacks around, surely they can act quite well.

How do you act like you have black skin, for instance?

I believe that it is the responsibility of society to provide for parents and children. We should make sure raising children is not particularly damaging economically. Saying that they “breed themselves into poverty” is just an excuse not to do that, as it is in this case.

For this reason, commenting “they will breed into poverty” under a post about tax cuts for mothers is quite misanthropic and idiotic, since it will probably decrease poverty.

A working class life is not quite worthless. I would not prefer it, but it is still worth living. You must think that too, otherwise you would kill yourself.

Also, they are not slaves in the literal sense, and I suppose, metaphorically, we are all slaves to society.

Right, becuase it is surely better for everyone to die childless, and for the humans to become extinct, since we definetly do not live in a period of incredible opulence.