THE REASON FOR JESUS’ ACTION AT THE TEMPLE
Joseph, don’t be daft. Moneychanging (converting between currencies, storing money, lending money at interest), was a terribly important function… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=289303508333213&id=100017606988153
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 11:55:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035858632670433281
WITCH TRIALS WERE A FUNCTION OF THE REFORMATION’S WARS OF RELIGION
Yes, this is also is my understanding as long as we also take into account that ritual sacrifice was ancestral, killing scolds, harlots, non conformists, mischief makers, and thieves by casting them as possessed or a witch was ancestral, hanging was aggressive during the period, and the church simply ‘made use of’ the technique just as the church always had made use of whatever it could.
—“A paper published in the August edition of the Economic Journal casts doubt on both theories. Peter Leeson and Jacob Russ, also of George Mason University, collected data for witch trials from 21 countries between 1300 and 1850, in which 43,240 people were prosecuted. They found that the weather had a statistically insignificant impact on the occurrence of witch trials. The impact of negative income shocks or governmental capacity was also very weak.
When Mr Leeson and Mr Russ compared their witch-trial data to the timing and location of over 400 battles between Christian denominations, they found a much closer link. Where there was more conflict between Catholics and Protestants (in Britain, between Anglicans and Presbyterians), witch trials were widespread; in places where one creed dominated there were fewer. The authors conclude that churches engaged in a sort of “non-price competition”, gaining converts in confessional battlegrounds by advertising their commitment to fighting evil by trying witches.”— The Economists via Marginal Revolution
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 08:40:00 UTC
THE REASON FOR JESUS’ ACTION AT THE TEMPLE
Joseph, don’t be daft. Moneychanging (converting between currencies, storing money, lending money at interest), was a terribly important function given the diversity of monies used – today that function is provided by central banks and larger commercial banks, and travel currency exchanges. In the ancient world the roman treasury used ‘agents’ the way we use these banks. (I prefer the agents model and want to eliminate consumer banks as they are known today.) The problem was that the people at some temples took abusive advantage of the poor. When Romans invaded Judea they established their temples and their money changers. This competition prevented the Jewish priests from charging high rates at their temples. And so they sought marginal cases to charge usurious rates. This is what jesus was rebelling against: the abuse of the poor. The complete story is never stated. The fact that Jews specialize in usurious lending to those who cannot afford, or lend into moral hazard, predates their introduction to europe – it is the original occupation of their priesthood.
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 07:55:00 UTC
( I hate conflict. I hate gender conflict. I fk–ing hate race conflict. And most of all I hate religious conflict. Competition, particularly signal competition creates conflict. the only… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=289141195016111&id=100017606988153
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 00:15:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035682474213421064
THE PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC ATTACK ON CIVILIZATION.
The curse of postmodern pseudoscience in most of the other answers. Postmodernism like Marxism was designed, like Abrahamic Religions, as an… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=289139085016322&id=100017606988153
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 00:05:08 UTC
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Again. Let me help you. A TEMPLE was a BANK. That’s why.
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-31 23:52:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035676675579764736
The abrahamic, marxist-feminist-postmodernist struggle against white man. Versus the classical and modern struggle against nature. It’s no wonder they created ignorance and stagnation wherever they went.
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-31 23:51:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035676478942400514
( I hate conflict. I hate gender conflict. I fk–ing hate race conflict. And most of all I hate religious conflict. Competition, particularly signal competition creates conflict. the only solutions are nation states or regression to the bottom. empires are self destructive. They give opportunity to the worst of everything. )
( I hate conflict. I hate gender conflict. I fk–ing hate race conflict. And most of all I hate religious conflict. Competition, particularly signal competition creates conflict. the only solutions are nation states or regression to the bottom. empires are self destructive. They give opportunity to the worst of everything. )
The curse of postmodern pseudoscience in most of the other answers. Postmodernism like Marxism was designed, like Abrahamic Religions, as an attack on European Peoples (civilization), to eradicate our civlization in the modern world just as Abrahamic religion was used to eradicate the five great civilizations of the ancient world: Roman New Europe), Byzantine (old europe), Anatolian, Persian (Iranic), Egyptian, and North African. All those civilizations were destroyed by the last attempt at cultural destruction. Why? Marxism/Postmodernism in the modern world, and Abrahamic Religion in the ancient world foster dysgenic rapid reproduction of the underclasses reversing genetic domestication under small farm mixed agrarianism, effectively weaponizing reproduction and ignorance and superstition against civilization. There are reasons that the Han, Koreans,Japanese and Europeans succeeded and other civilizations failed to maintain rates of innovation. The reason is that the Han, Koreans and Japanese remained insular and homogeneous, and whites succeed as long as they also remain homogeneous and practice eugenic reproduction through manorialism (meritocracy). The rest of the world did the opposite and the sizes of their underclasses pose such a burden that they cannot produce sufficient middle and upper classes to produce high trust commercially successful political orders.