I am well aware that Christianity has Communism beat here, how many ancient European pagan structure has been destroyed under the name of the kike Jesus?
The fact is, both Christianity and Islam being the jewish religion that they are have played a major role in destroying native non jewish heritage and culture all around the world.
"Modernizing" always seems to entail putting up a bunch of cameras, cell scanners and biometric reader devices. Because what could be more modern than having some government cocksucker minding your business?
That's true as well, that's the evolution of 'modernization', but it started with destroying ancient architecture. Now with most old architecture destroyed, modernization has evolved into meaning turning cities into prisons.
I live in New England. We still have some beautiful Victorian era buildings around. The beauty and craftsmanship of these buildings is sometimes overwhelming when I contrast it with the modern cement boxes they build now.
Are you denying that Christian's didn't go on a vandalization rampage and teared down many pagan temples and other holy sites belonging to the pagans?
Here is one account, dating back to 500 A.D;
Martin destroys Heathen Temples and Altars
NOR did he show less eminence, much about the same time, in other transactions of a like kind. For, having in a certain village set fire to a very ancient and celebrated temple, the circle of flames was carried by the action of the wind upon a house which was very close to, yea, connected with, the temple. When Martin perceived this, he climbed by rapid ascent to the roof of the house, presenting himself in front of the advancing flames. Then indeed might the fire have been seen thrust back in a wonderful manner against the force of the wind, so that there appeared a sort of conflict of the two elements fighting together. Thus, by the influence of Martin, the fire only acted in the place where it was ordered to do so. But in a village which was named Leprosum, when he too wished to overthrow a temple which had acquired great wealth through the superstitious ideas entertained of its sanctity, a multitude of the heathen resisted him to such a degree that he was driven back not without bodily injury. He, therefore, withdrew to a place in the vicinity, and there for three days, clothed in sackcloth[30] and ashes fasting and praying the whole time, he besought the Lord, that, as he had not been able to overthrow that temple by human effort, Divine power might be exerted to destroy it. Then two angels, with spears and shields after the manner of heavenly warriors, suddenly presented themselves to him, saying that they were sent by the Lord to put to flight the rustic multitude, and to furnish protection to Martin, lest, while the temple was being destroyed, any one should offer resistance. They told him therefore to return, and complete the blessed work which he had begun. Accordingly Martin returned to the village; and while the crowds of heathen looked on in perfect quiet as he razed the pagan temple even to the foundations, he also reduced all the altars and images to dust. At this sight the rustics, when they perceived that they had been so astounded and terrified by an intervention of the Divine will, that they might not be found fighting against the bishop, almost all believed in the Lord Jesus. They then began to cry out openly and to confess that the God of Martin ought to be worshiped, and that the idols should be despised, which were not able to help them.
In AD 385, Theodosius I directed Cynegius, his praetorian prefect in the East, to enforce the prohibition of sacrifice for the purpose of divination (CTh. XVI.10.9). Exceeding his mandate, Cynegius began to suppress the temples, themselves, including the Temple of Zeus at Apamea in Syria. Its destruction by the bishop there is described Theodoret in his Ecclesiastical History. An attempt was made, but the stone was so hard and the columns so massive, each measuring some twenty-five feet in circumference and held together with iron and lead clamps, that the prefect despaired of pulling them down. Praying for divine assistance, the bishop was visited the next morning by a simple laborer, who suggested that the foundation of three of the columns be undermined and replaced by timber beams, to which he then set fire. "When their support had vanished the columns themselves fell down, and dragged the other twelve with them. The side of the temple which was connected with the columns was dragged down by the violence of their fall, and carried away with them. The crash, which was tremendous, was heard throughout the town" (V.21). The bishop destroyed other pagan shrines in his diocese and Cynegius proceeded to Egypt.
It was then, in AD 386, that Libanius made an impassioned plea to Theodosius that the temples be preserved. Four years earlier, the emperor had decreed (CTh. XVI.10.8) that the temple at Edessa in upper Mesopotamia, "in which images are reported to have been placed which must be measured by the value of their art rather than by their divinity," remain open. It was destroyed nevertheless, even though it was as great a marvel as the Temple of Serapis, "which I pray may never suffer the same fate."
Libanius argued that the rural shrines gave hope to the farm laborer by allowing him to pray for his crops. As a result, the land is more productive, the peasant not impoverished, and the landlord's yield increased. And yet the temples were ordered to be demolished in AD 399: "For when they are torn down and removed, the material basis for all superstition will be destroyed" (CTh. XVI.10.16).
In AD 401, the last remnants of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, built to house the great cult image of Artemis and regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world, were plundered by John Chrysostom, the patriarch of Constantinople, its marble burned in lime kilns to make cement, and the stone robbed for the construction of other buildings. Before his conversion, John had studied rhetoric and law and been a pupil of Libanius.
Beautiful structures were built in a time when beauty could be mutually appreciated. Architecture is about balance, feminine beauty, and brute engineering to make something functional and pleasant. We live in a timeline when people don't agree on there being two genders. Unfortunately I think that the next age in which we see beauty celebrated will be long after we're dust.
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[ + ] SirNiggsalot
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We still have some beautiful Victorian era buildings around.
The beauty and craftsmanship of these buildings is sometimes overwhelming when I contrast it with the modern cement boxes they build now.
We have lost much
[ + ] UncleDoug
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[ - ] dulcima 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 15, 2023 19:24:55 ago (+0/-0)
What hyperbole. Much of ancient Rome was destroyed by pagans from the north - the rest preserved by later Christians.
[ + ] didyouknow
[ - ] didyouknow [op] 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 15, 2023 20:46:05 ago (+0/-0)*
Here is one account, dating back to 500 A.D;
Martin destroys Heathen Temples and Altars
https://archive.ph/LySR
https://archive.ph/IfZD
There are more examples that you can dig up yourself. Hyperbole my arse.
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