I was listening to the Delingpole Podcast yesterday, his recent interview with Bret Weinstein and his wife, Heather. While understandably not everyone is a fan of the pair, Bret mentioned something that stunned me because I wish I had thought of it. Prior to COVID, no how many facts and statistics and science you threw at some people, usually leftists, their trump card to ignore it was their own "lived experience."
"Lived experience" allowed them to look past data showing America wasn't systematically racist, or that women weren't oppressed. He also pointed out that, today, just as then, you throw facts, statistics, historical comparisons, and "see I told you so" stuff (mycarditis and endless boosters) about the covid shot and it bounces off their armor of cognitive dissonance.
But what's REALLY telling, is that when you use your own, or others, "lived experience" about the covid vax, now the covid cultists are telling us "lived experience" doesn't count for anything. Witness what happened to Eric Clapton, a man who makes a living using his hands...and he almost lost the use of them due to the coof vax. His story is real, undeniable, powerful, and personal. It was also heartbreaking, both in what happened to him but how people denied his "lived experience" as not valid evidence.
Still, I use the fact that I have two close relatives that took the shot and suffered for it. There may be more, but only two are willing to speak about it. One has severe joint pain now, first time in his life, and the other, she has necropathy in her extremities. She's now on SS disability. This is real, "lived experience" that I have shared with others when the subject of the vax comes up.
The Armenian Genocide wasn't a "madness of crowds" situation? Okay, that's just wrong on many, many levels. As for the Salem Witch Trials, it's pretty much a textbook case, like tulip bulb mania or a stock bubble.
As for the Dark Ages. Jews were not in control of anything in the Western Roman Empire, let alone barbarian controlled Western Europe after the fall of the empire. Hell, they weren't even physically present in Europe at that point.
It is. Make no mistake.
Catholics aren't saints in the Dark Ages. They perpetuate serfdom as they fatten themselves.
I suppose we will have to just agree to disagree on the Armenian Genocide.
Catholics weren't, and aren't, saints. There is a reason why there is the sacrament of confession. Lots of bad along with the good.
That said, Christianity is what led to modern pseudo-equality and the eventual end of serfdom and slavery, because the premise behind it is that all people are made in the image of God. Only Christian Europe, with many fits and starts, ended slavery and then forced the rest of the world to do the same.
American Christianity.
The Dark Age Papacy owned the whole empire of Carlmagne and Serfs and is basically a Zionist wet dream.
The Dark Age papacy barely could extend any political power beyond Rome. The only power the Catholic church had at the time was cultural, i.e., Europe (mostly) had a shared faith. And Charlemagne was a just and fair sovereign. If we could bring him back from the dead, catch him up on things, and put him in charge of France and Germany, the world would be a far better place than it is today.
I think you are making the mistake of putting your 21st century morality onto the 800s. Comparing early midevil Europe to zionism is just silly. You're stretching so hard to find some sort of jew connection, but it's just not there.