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> It goes hand in hand with wars for religious conversion, which also weren't a thing before Christ. This isn’t close to true. Look at the timeline: https://en
by eightysixfour 5y ago
> It goes hand in hand with wars for religious conversion, which also weren't a thing before Christ.
This isn’t close to true. Look at the timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war
> The moment memes switched over from religion to politics as primary content seems to have been the French Revolution, I can't think of a time before that when people killed each other over political ideals.
Uh. What?
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- jrochkind1 5y ago> Uh. What? I'm not sure if it's true, but I see what they mean. A distinction between killing over power, and killing over ideas. I can see the attraction of the idea that killing over ideas is a modern phenomenon, although it's probably not entirely true (in either direction -- most wars over ideas are perhaps really about power anyway... but is couching it as a war over ideas a modern phenomenon? Probably still not entirely, but there might be something to it...)
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- cousin_it 5y agoThat timeline lists very few "religious wars" before Christ, and I think none of them were fought for religious conversion. Mostly just for territory.