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> I can't think of a time before that when people killed each other over political ideals. This has been a thing since at least the Roman empire? Pretty sure t
by WJW 5y ago
> I can't think of a time before that when people killed each other over political ideals.
This has been a thing since at least the Roman empire? Pretty sure that the Athens-Sparta wars were also at least in part over ideological differences. Probably much earlier too, but I'm not a historian and can't recall any from the top of my head.
Btw, to say that the French revolution was primarily over political ideals and not (say) a power struggle between competing elites or a public revolt over economic circumstances seems like a huge oversimplification of a conflict that took over a decade.
- memling 5y ago> This has been a thing since at least the Roman empire? My read on the comment was that people killed each other for political reasons prior to the time of Christ, and maybe even religious reasons, but that conversion wasn't a stated goal. This aligns in general with the assumption that while the religious was universal, Christianity is a peculiar mixture of inclusive and exclusive claims that redraw the boundaries between people primarily on a faith test rather than political or racial tests.