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A lot of the posts in this thread are off-topic. It's monotheists vs. polytheists, remember, not monotheists against each other. Which just goes to show what a non-problem this really is.
Hellz yeah! I'm a pantheist, but just for you, today going TradCath.
The Crusades were peak medieval bro-code. Catholic Church flexing against the infidels, reclaiming Jerusalem like a boss. Manly AFK - knights, armor, epic battles, zero soy. Built Western unity, spurred trade, tech boom. Holy wars? More like holy gains. Deus vult, chads!
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Dammit folks. I'm having a really hard time finding current IRL examples of evil dastardly TradCaths persecuting IRL pagans.
Post away, But until then I'm using a made up one.
You had me a 'pray - kill'. No need to convince me.
Polytheists are have no moral high-ground to stand on. Indian polytheists killed up to a million "Abrahamists," by some estimates, in the Partition of 1947. I see no evidence Polytheism make you any less violent, and they killed tens of thousands of people in recent history . For instance, in the 1983 Nellie Massacre, around 1,600 to 2,000 Muslims were killed by their Hindu village neighbors. I am also not making a truth claim Indians are any more or less violent than anyone else.
We can go on , but my real point is that religion is not a very good metric to measure the human potential for violence. All it takes is for any number of triggers for a civilization to enter Mass Psychosis and become violent.
Indian polytheists did not kill a million muslims during partition. Most of the bloodshed during the partition of India & Pakistan was between the adherents of the monotheist religion of Sikhism and Islam in the province of Punjab. The muslims began the massacres and rapes and forced the Sikhs out of their ancestral lands in the muslim dominant parts of the Punjab, and the Sikhs retaliated. The numbers killed were less than a million and likely equally divided.
The 1983 Nellie massacre was in the indian state of Assam, which is being encroached upon by muslim bengalis from Bangladesh even now. This was an ethnic conflict driven by fears of their language and culture being subsumed. Go to any Assamese forum and you'll find that most of them still want the muslim Bengalis to GTFO because reportedly they don't integrate, despise the polytheist religion, are responsible for a large amount of crime, their predatory behaviour toward women, child marriage and breeding hordes of children. Even now the polytheists are being persecuted in Bangladesh by the innocent muslim angels. There is no surprise why the neighboring ethnic groups would fear them.
Usually the pattern is, the Muslims fuck around, then find out (where the polytheists have the numbers to fight back), and then cry victim. Note the recent issues in Gaza. You don't know anything about India.
Polytheists in general do not brand people who have different ideas as devil worshippers and evil. Islam and Christianity most likely worship egregores, given their strong motivation to increase numbers by conversion or breeding hordes of children and taking over the world.
I thought the game we're playing here is to take cultural tribal conflicts that are often religiously encoded, including resource or territorial warfare , assign maximum blame to the other guy, de-contextualize and generalize all of them into an even more abstract category we made.
Since we are NOW doing nuance, sure, other estimates range from 500,000 to 800,000 Muslims were killed by Hindus and Sikhs in India during the 1947 Partition.
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Look, I'm temporarily playing as a TradCath in this game.
You really don't have to convince me to go on a crusade, jihad, or dharma yuddha. All good.
