That religious debate is hilarious. "Why would god create humans? Was he bored? Did he want a pet? Then after creating them, throwing them into hell or uplifting to heaven on his own whim. Sounds like a demon to me."
The last story is awesome. The europeans arrive, party for a bit. Then when they say they don't wanna hunt an elephant, the Zulu leader goes "what, you scared?" and then they hunt the elephant. That's hilarious
That Buddhist shit talking Christianity with the priest being completely at a loss for words is just too perfect to have ever actually happened. I am completely positive it was penned long after the fact.
This is fascinating. I believe, had it not been for disease that wipped out millions of indigenoud people, the Europeans would have been treated the same in the Americas.
"This Deus looks like a devil to me" is such a perfect summary of Christianity from an outside perspective. Japan rolled a nat 20 on the religion check!
The outsider perspective on how insidious Christian missionaries actually were really ought to be eye opening to any Christian, they literally employed the same tactics of cults, targetting the desperate and bribing the wealthy with gifts and flattery, slowly eroding the culture and religion of the native people as they replaced it with their own. They did it to the Germanics and Pagans, they did it to the Greeks, they did it to the Indians, they did it to the Africans, and they were partway through doing it to the American Indians, but they ended up being one of the few cultures to survive being indoctrinated.
"A bunch of barbarous 7 foot tall yellow eyed fanged and clawed hob goblins shreaking like owls and carrying magical murderous bang sticks... Theyre pretty chill."
This has been suggested before (and even liked by the channel) but it would be nice to get a video of the thai embassy to the french court. There's a lengthy and detailed diary from the thai perspective.
as a Portuguese, my ancestors arriving at a place where they were the ones perceived as savages and not the opposite, and then proceeding to show everyone their guns but in a harmless way is hilarious and quite a breath of fresh air among all the horrible colonization thing
This was super insightful to see how Christianity was viewed by the other cultures of the world; they really paint the priests out to be thieves and scoundrels which sort of fits the oldest depictions of Deus back when he was called Yahweh, lesser diety of war and pillaging. 🤣 Definitely had an appreciation for that description of the reverse engineering process of the muskets that were brought over from Europe. I only wish the author included a description of how they solved the problem with closing one end of the barrel. Very good reading! 👍
The Vatican army, AKA: the Pontifical Guard, are a privately hired militia that hailed from Switzerland thus creating the legendary tales of the Swiss Guard. The Swiss Guard are not priests, just mercenaries who dress flamboyantly as a statement to piss off the pope back when they started wearing that outfit. The pope decided to continue hiring Swiss mercenaries for the Pontifical Guard despite their comical apparel and the tradition has persisted into modern times. The Jesuits are an order of Roman Catholic priests founded in 1540. Despite being raised Catholic, I admittedly know little about the Jesuit organization. @@harbinger200
@@harbinger200there was a lot of variety within jesuits, but I wouldn’t just say they were outright evil. In the americas for example, it was their efforts that converted all of the two viceroyalties there at that time into christianity rather smoothly. They were really liked, and it was exactly this one of the reasons the tupac amaru rebellion happened. The bourbon reforms in the spanish empire declared to kick out every single jesuit from the empire, but tupac amaru was taught by jesuits and had the jesuit belief. And it just so happened that his former teacher, francisco suarez was also the one that first brought up the concept of tyrannicide.
Didnt have any clean forks or spoons or whatever the other day. Found some chopsticks tho and decided "challenge accepted" and really it took a couple minutes to work out the best way to implement the implements, but it worked out
The off-hand remark about how Varus had entered the rich province of Syria as a poor man and left the poor province of Syria as a rich man gave me a good chuckle.
"this wild goblin demon creature showed up..." Accurate depiction of Portuguese 😂 I like that they came to call the rifle a "fire arm" as well. And it used "medicine" to fire. The "Kurishitan" One Buddha is an interesting take as well. Fascinating stuff.
It hurts how true that quote at 2:30 is. As someone who lives in a recently collapsed nation the money I've been saving my whole life is now useless to me.
