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  1. Alternate Earth 3: Passionless Christ

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    As it was first practised' date=' it was even more confusing and disorganised than it is today - this would have been before they had even compiled the bible together at the Council of Rome - so there were lots of small groups reading from their own handfuls of holy writings, no two sets of papers being alike.

    However - it wasn't against what the Romans were practicing in their empire at the time (ie slavery was still okay) - so I don't see how it could have been responsible for the decline. Unless it made them start questioning themselves and being less arrogantly dogmatic in their organisation.

     

    Well the crude version of GIbbon's theory that I have received second-hand is that Christianity's nonmartial virtues caused the Empire to become less martial. This is probably a misrepresentation of what Gibbon thought though.

     

    I don't think there's anything in early Christianity about slavery being wrong. I imagine it falls into the class of things that belong to Caesar.

  3. Alternate Earth 3: Passionless Christ

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    I wonder what religion would have got Rome's attention then?

    Whichever one it was - the empire would spread that religion instead.

     

    I realize this is a highly contentious issue -- but Gibbon theorized that Rome fell precisely because it converted to Christianity (if I remember the theory correctly). So maybe the Empire would have lasted longer. Maybe.

  4. Alternate Earth 3: Passionless Christ

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    No messianic overtones to Jesus = no Christian church as distinct from Judaism. Probably no mass conversion of the Roman Empire. Either some other monotheistic system steps in to fill the void' date=' or polytheism remains the norm in Europe. [/quote']

     

    I suppose one of the other salvation religions (Orphism, Isis worship) that were springing up in Rome might fill the void.

  5. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks Hero

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    What bugs me about ETTBP in retrospect -- not that it occured to my 12-year-old self -- is how impossible the situation was. This is a problem endemic to Gygax modules, I know -- the unsupportable ecosystem. The ship's decks were each only a few hundred feet across, stuffed with hungry carnivorous monsters. Fully a third of the top deck was inhabited by a large tribe of vegepygmies (maybe two tribes? I don't remember). What the heck did they all eat?

  12. Disads for Dana Scully

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    This is getting VERY off-topic' date=' but my understanding is that the Pope is only considered infallible in matters pertaining to the interpretation of Christian and Catholic dogma. On anything else he's as capable of error as anyone else.[/quote']

     

    Not only that, infallibity has only been involved a handful of times (four, I think) on central questions of dogma, like the ascension of Mary. The Pope doesn't even claim infallibity on abortion.

  17. What gives the "rightful" king the right?

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    Even supposing that were true (our only evidence for it is that William said so)' date=' Edward the Confessor had no right to appoint his successor, or to bequeath his kingship like a piece of property. The right of choosing teh king belonged to the [i']Witanargemot[/i], and they had elected Harold of Wessex.

     

    You guys could just settle this disagreement the old-fashioned way by having a war about it.

  19. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks Hero

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    I loved loved loved loved loved, and I do mean loved, this DnD module when I was a kid, and although I haven't actually seen a copy in lo two decades now, I had a serious nostalgia flash looking at some of the illustrations online. I was just idly wondering if anybody had ever tried adapting it for Hero, and what became of it?

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