“Todays topic is Christianity” me hearing it for the 1,000th time : LETS GOOOOO
@obiwankenobi6871
Ай бұрын
As a Eastern Orthodox Christian☦️ this was great to watch but also painful simultaneously, he paints a lot of things with personal spiritual biases often
@algro9567
Ай бұрын
Can you go into detail about what these personal spiritual biases are? I just want to understand your perspective as someone from the Eastern sphere.
@charliedontsurf334
Ай бұрын
We all have biases.
@samueldietschi4278
Ай бұрын
As a catholic, same. specially when he talks about the Eucharist being psychodelics
@charliedontsurf334
Ай бұрын
@@samueldietschi4278 I need a lot of evidence before I can buy that the Eucharist was a psychedelic.
@abbacab77
Ай бұрын
The book is called "The Immortality Key" by Brian C. Muraresku if you actually want sources.
@julian9898
Ай бұрын
"Once you imagine the Christian church as a bunch of multi-ethnic working class people, it looks a lot different."
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
Because you are trying to justify your own religion, not presenting The Actual Church.
@edwardjoseph8007
Ай бұрын
The reason the Jews were so hard to govern was because the Romans said you had to follow our laws but the Jews believed that following roman law was an affront to their own beliefs. Most cultures were perfectly fine following roman law in addition to their own personal beliefs but for the Jews they believed if was incompatible hence the irishness
@tuckerbugeater
Ай бұрын
They kept them around
@hermitcard4494
Ай бұрын
Thats how monotheistic think. You can always keep peace and cooperation with polytheist because they can agree with different interpretations. YOU CANNOT KEEP PEACE with monotheists, they wont obey, not tolerate others interpretations and eventually convert them. Judaism did it by force, Christianity did it by pressure, Islam a combination of both. That's why no polytheist kingdom has conquered and spread as much as monotheist.
@user-pi6oc4st4f
Ай бұрын
@@hermitcard4494 Greek empires, Roman Empire, Mongol Empire all were pagan. Now tell what exactly Judaism did violently? Lived in a tiny kingdom and were exercising their ethno-religion?When pagan invaders came and forced them to abandon their ancestral cult?
@QuizmasterLaw
Ай бұрын
I don't think that is the case. It is the restrictions on Jews following Jewish law which have however often led to social conflicts, sometimes (infrequently) right up to war, not the fact Jews also had to obey the law of an occupier.
@geesixnine
Ай бұрын
It's because they remember how Cyrus the great treated them under their Empire. Also, in the Bible, the Jews strayed from God, hence their exile from Jerusalem initially in the Persian conquest
@spoonfulofdreams8790
Ай бұрын
Armenia was the first state to convert to Christianity not Ethiopia
@tianming4964
Ай бұрын
Actually Osroene/Edessa was the first in 200 AD. Didn't last as an independent kingdom for long though.
@anonymoose9315
Ай бұрын
I am Armenian, in part, I always believed that Armenia was first but not it was Osroene.
@robleahy5759
Ай бұрын
Georgia was the first Christian kingdom.
@robleahy5759
Ай бұрын
Ireland converted around the same time. Go figure the distance.
@anonymoose9315
Ай бұрын
@@robleahy5759 no, Georgia didn’t convert until early 400s ce. Armenia officially converted in 301ce and is well documented. Osroene converted in 200ce but the kingdom fell in 214ce.
@joshsolomon4825
Ай бұрын
35:36 He didn't convert the empire, he just make Christianity legal
@BrockSamson18
Ай бұрын
Remember, Jesus literally and actually rose from the dead and now sits at the right hand of The Father.
@abbacab77
Ай бұрын
"scoot over, Michael."
@thorpeaaron1110
Ай бұрын
He didn't.
@deitchj003
Ай бұрын
@@thorpeaaron1110you are a sad person and I pray for you
@BrockSamson18
Ай бұрын
@@thorpeaaron1110 Pinochet recognized this Truth.
@mountainmanmike1014
Ай бұрын
But on which side of the moon?
@BMWE90HQ
Ай бұрын
Constantine did not convert Rome to Christianity . He legalized it and converted himself but it was Theodosius who made it the official religion.
@memphisallen8021
Ай бұрын
Christ is lord and king!!
@history1982
Ай бұрын
Lol
@DeFu-dt4qt
Ай бұрын
Naw 😂
@michaelgranholm7598
Ай бұрын
Christ is lord and king.
@ShivanshThakur-sh8ub
Ай бұрын
Nope.
@maryhildreth754
Ай бұрын
Candace?
@Chris-es3wf
Ай бұрын
Here before the reformation in the comments starts.
@spoonfulofdreams8790
Ай бұрын
Christ is king!
@rgeipoj325
Ай бұрын
No
@spoonfulofdreams8790
Ай бұрын
@@rgeipoj325 god bless you!
@acem82
Ай бұрын
1. The Eucharist (Communion) was not (originally) a hallucinogen. It literally was the Passover bread! This claptrap comes from 1 of 2 fallacies: A. Everything needs a mechanistic explanation. This is obviously false. B. These people absolutely need to find some way to make Christianity “dirty” or a trick so they can discount it. Not only is this claim nonsensical, it also violates the concept of Ephesians 5:18 “Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit” and 1 Peter 4:3-4 “For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do-living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.” 2. It wasn't simply claimed by Christians that Jesus died, it's denied by pretty much zero historians. He lived, was condemned, and was executed. All the relevant sources say such. 3. There are *not* lost books of the Bible! There were a bunch of books in the 1st 2 centuries that claimed or implied that they were authoritative ...and they were rejected by the early Church for very good reasons. 4. Please stop the constantly disproven claptrap about December 25th (or Christmas in general) being some sort of pagan holiday. It wasn't. Any reference that the pagans celebrated that day post dates references that Christians celebrated that day. In fact, it's the pagans who tried to steal the day from the Christians! Why December 25th? There was an old belief that prophets died on the day they were conceived. They knew Jesus died March 25th, so they went back (Edit: actually forwards, as @Ch-ew9tm points out below) 9 months to December 25th, and that's when they celebrated his birth. … Given I've found errors in other history you've presented, and a lot here (in a subject I know well), I'm really wondering why I'd trust you to avoid pitfalls of historical thought in other subjects. After all, just because someone wrote it in a book, that doesn't mean it's correct!
@TheFifthofFive
Ай бұрын
Yeah, a lot of what he said in the video just drove me crazy. I think he just reads random books on the subject but doesn't check the quality of the source. I usually really like his video but after this it made me realize he doesn't know how to filter out bad sources.
@johnnyboy2537
Ай бұрын
The pattern with Rudyard is that he's great when it comes to the big picture but usually gets the details wrong so the comments are usually good for correcting and balancing him out
@grogdizzy5814
27 күн бұрын
You don't know about saturnalia and the winter solstice yet claim to know everything about Christianity? I think faith relies on ignorance.
@acem82
26 күн бұрын
@@grogdizzy5814 1. I don't know everything about Christianity. I'm not God. 2. I know about all the claims that December 25th was a pagan holiday. The issue with these claims is that they post-date our evidence that December 25th was already being celebrated as Jesus' birthday. They also ignore that we already know *why* they celebrated it then, in that it was thought to have been when Jesus was conceived. InspiringPhilosophy has a dozen or so videos on this subject.
@grogdizzy5814
26 күн бұрын
@@acem82 like i said, faith relies on ignorance
@Taiyama2
Ай бұрын
There's a lot wrong here, alas. You can tell that Rudyard's high openness (he mentioned he's on the far right of that bellcurve) sometimes leads him into traps, since he wants to assume the truth is always hidden and needs to be uncovered rather than being out in the open. The bread and wine is "just" bread and wine in material terms. The magic is that it's also the body and blood of Christ.
@charliedontsurf334
Ай бұрын
“There was room for Yahweh on Mt Olympus, but no room for the Olympians in the Holy of Holies.” The Casual Historian. There was no way the Jews would worship other gods after the Babylonian Exile.
@TheGreenKnight500
Ай бұрын
@@charliedontsurf334 The tribe still seeks revenge to this day.
@charliedontsurf334
Ай бұрын
@@TheGreenKnight500 Which tribe?
@jon9428
16 күн бұрын
@@TheGreenKnight500 For what, not letting the Olympians sit on the Holy of Holies? What are they seeking revenge for?
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
@@jon9428 against God For Giving Us His Church.
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
pgn "gods" are dmns by the way.
@SacClass650
Ай бұрын
I love Diarmaid MacCulloch's description of Christianity: 'It is a dialogue between Judaism and Classical philosophy.' (His works on the history of Christianity are exemplary, highly recommend.)
@Byronjesk6004
Ай бұрын
“As a Christian I’m legally obligated to say it was all God’s plan.” Ha! This man barely conceals his non-belief. Very edgy.
@TheGreenKnight500
Ай бұрын
He's just not a blind adherent to ideology.
@deitchj003
Ай бұрын
@@TheGreenKnight500you have your name as a knight. Who are based on Christianity. You cannot escape God.
@FozzyBBear
Ай бұрын
@@deitchj003 "the green knight" is literally a paleo-British demonic icon, a legendary trickster archetype akin to Loki in Norse mythology.
@DrakusLuthos
Ай бұрын
@@FozzyBBear The Green Knight is a figure from the Arthurian tale of Gawain and the Green Knight, most likely some sort of fae spirit. If you want to know how the faithful considered tales such as this, look no further than J. R. R. Tolkien, whom penned a loving rendition of the tale in poetic verse. He was a devout Catholic.
@scottanos9981
Ай бұрын
Rudyard, I think you might find a book on the history of the turbulance in the early Christian Church to be interesting. It's by James E. Talmage and is titled "The Great Apostasy". You were discussing various groups like gnostics trying to infiltrate the Christians from almost the beginning, and this can help explain how even the Apostle Paul was writing in the Epistle of Jude over the matter. Also, I think the third group you were thinking of among the Jews were named the Sadducees. Hope this helps!
@temujanradari1105
Ай бұрын
Didn't know they were Hellenistic... Always thought they were lovers... as they were Sad, you see
@carteraskelson782
Ай бұрын
Great Book!
@vortigan9068
Ай бұрын
49:08 lmfao rudy is really something
@barrackobama2422
Ай бұрын
Arf Arf Arf! That was so fuckin random it was funny
@94sweetgoats52
Ай бұрын
yeah that killed me lol
@MidwestArtMan
15 күн бұрын
"A bunch of working-class multi-racial people taking psychedelics." That's literally Joe Rogan's audience.
@feliciaf8
13 сағат бұрын
even tho its not true at all in regards to psychedelics
@danielwatcherofthelord1823
Ай бұрын
The Sadducees were a sect and also there were the scribes who were in alignment with the Pharisees, but had a different role in the religous structure. And lastly, the Herodians were aligned with the state and Roman state influence, possibly Greek also but not completely sure on that.
@charliedontsurf334
Ай бұрын
They weren't really in alignment. They were quasi-theological liberals who only accepted the Torah/Pentateuch as scripture.
@pre-debutera6941
Ай бұрын
You have a bad habit of presenting theories as fact
@johnnyboy2537
Ай бұрын
The pattern I've noticed with him is that he usually nails the overall picture but misses or gets details wrong that can mess up the point he's trying to make if you know more about the subject than he does. Still worth listening to though.
@simmat6419
Ай бұрын
Christianty, my favorite religion!
@gregorylatta8159
Ай бұрын
My only religion!
@cupholderincorporated
Ай бұрын
30:04 I think you need to watch some inspiring philosophy videos as inspiring philosophy debunks all of those fabricated myths by atheists to diss Christs word
@Northidahoshorts
Ай бұрын
Love your channel god bless. Do a video on the early church schisms
@DFMoray
3 күн бұрын
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
@Petrusanak
Ай бұрын
The Edict of Serdica in 311 AD/CE forbade the persecution of Christians in the Empire The Edict of Milan in 313 AD/CE legalized Christianity as one of the religions of the Empire The Edict of Thessalonica in 380 AD/CE made Christianity the State Religion of the Empire
@skyhighstax
8 күн бұрын
I am not religious but I do understand the importance of religion in society. We are doomed without it
@m3c4nyku43
7 күн бұрын
Then you're a doomed individual.
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
@@m3c4nyku43 The Church, and only The Church could, Created ALL you know, don't know, and take for granted. without your Remaining Catholic Capital you lose it ALL.
@m3c4nyku43
2 күн бұрын
@@HunnysPlaylists bro he said he's "not religious". Say that to him. These type of people who say "I'm not religious but we need religion" are on a high horse and believe themselves superior to the average person and they think they don't need religion but it's good to keep the cattle in check, that's their belief system. I used his own words to point out the hypocrisy. And if we're to split hairs, it's not the Church that created everything, it's God. He created the Church.
@BABYPOP028
Ай бұрын
Some Gregorian chant music in the beginning would have set the mood a bit more proper
@Mcfunface
Ай бұрын
Maybe some polyphony too
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
The Holiness would repel his unforgivable blasphemies.
@Wakanda4bigmama
Ай бұрын
I like when minions start singing at the end of the intro
@aaronfredrickson9538
Ай бұрын
Illumination. Hehehe
@UrbanBard1
9 күн бұрын
I can't consider myself a good Christian, because I struggle with it so much. But, being WOKE seems insane. Partly, this is because I have been influenced by the Stoics. Christianity, to my mind, is about conforming myself to God's wishes. "Love God with all my heart, soul and mind and love my neighbor as myself. " Stoicism pursues the Best life by changing how we think about whatever happens to us. External events can be awful or disconcerting, but we have no idea what good can come from those events. So, a Stoic asks "what lesson are we supposed to learn from this?" Thus, a Stoic practices the four virtues: pursue Wisdom, exercise Temperance (or moderation), be Just (doing the right thing) and possessing Courage. I believe God wants these actions from us. Thus. we are expected to act toward other people, by being modest, gentle, kind, mature, peaceful and selfless, where it makes sense. God has given us a brain so we can determine what is the wise response in any situation. Nothing is automatic, nor must we necessarily allow ourselves to be manipulated. I ask, instead, "What does God think is wise?" While being WOKE looks like Live Action Role Playing. It is virtue signaling on a global scale. It never looks at consequences or reactions. Disaster tends to follow such people.
@georgios_5342
3 сағат бұрын
Iota in Greek doesn't mean nothing, it is a letter of the alphabet, basically the debate was about a part of the Nicene Creed, that described Jesus as having equal value to God the Father (omoousios), but some heretics thought it was of similar value (omoiousios)
@dolphadomian4762
11 күн бұрын
Correction: Armenia was the First Nation to convert to Christianity
@GnosticInformant
Ай бұрын
Gessius Florus was told by Nero to take money from the Temple of Jerusalem and they revolted. They weren't just "being like the Irish". Also, the Pharisees were the Hellenized group and the Sadducees were the older, more conservative law-keeping sect.
@cordellharwood7363
6 күн бұрын
Yo Neal love your stuff bro Hail Satan
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
@@cordellharwood7363 your curses are Consummately Returned.
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
@@cordellharwood7363 By My Final Authority you and ALL those l1ke you are Hereby Marked In Full.
@hismajesty6272
Ай бұрын
It spread because the hearts and minds of Judea, Rome, and beyond were open to the Fullness of Truth, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
@Meow-gp5nk
Ай бұрын
Christard coping as per usual
@ikengaspirit3063
Ай бұрын
30:03 our first source of the mitra/sol Invictus on December 25th literally post-dates the first source for christmas on that date. So, no, it isn't adopted from a dif religion.
@feliciaf8
13 сағат бұрын
yep this one irks me, and also the eucharist too
@ikengaspirit3063
46 минут бұрын
@@feliciaf8 I think the Eucharist stuff comes from moderns being unable to understand how people can have altered state of consciousness experiences without drugs and how people can believe in the supernatural as much as they believe in the natural. It's why they come up with so many ridiculous explanations to explain away the resurrection while there's more realistic explanations of they either just believe it or look at how people that still believe in the supernatural today in semi-modern countries, act around miracle.
@Xairos84
Ай бұрын
Judea was to Rome what Gaza is to Israel today. Strange to say...
@SamSamonov
Ай бұрын
Very accurate
@shaulkofler3247
Ай бұрын
This is a factually incorrect statement. Also you unknowingly inferred that the jews had a historical homeland and therefore your statement makes even less sense
@Peak_Aussieman
Ай бұрын
What a co-inky-dink I was just reminiscing on your How Christianity Changed History video.
@Peak_Aussieman
Ай бұрын
@@WangHung As Written...
@tuckerbugeater
Ай бұрын
The Jews created Christianity and it changed people not the other way around
@RayAugMac
Ай бұрын
GLORY TO GOD✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
@carlossaborio6716
Ай бұрын
Hail Prometheus, his sacrifice saved us all!
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
your curses are Consummately Returned.
@utarefson9
11 күн бұрын
The host actually talked back! Please, more of that!
@Bogfrog1
Ай бұрын
I strongly recommend you read The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity to learn a cool story about the persecution of Roman Christians. The parables of the Desert Fathers is also an amazing read. St Anselm’s “Proslogium” is a beautiful (yet also wordy) proof of God. St Francis of Assisi also has some beautiful poems about God and nature.
@deirdrecarney7093
11 күн бұрын
Excellent video that perfectly expresses what a lot of us feel. It’s good to know other people feel the same.
@caleb3639
Ай бұрын
just so you know, Christianity started in the garden
@playmaka2007
Ай бұрын
The problem: "One of the best traits of Christianity is it's adaptability" @18:20 I know what you mean in that humans have tried to adapt "Christianity" to make it palpable to them However Hebrews 13:8 directly contradicts this. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Christ, and what he tells us it means to follow him, is the least adaptable thing imaginable.
@ikengaspirit3063
Ай бұрын
I think you're confusing what he means there. I don't think he's talking of changing doctrine but changing organization. Christianity has managed to survive in many different forms from as organized state religion to as decentralized as having no priesthood. It has managed in agriculturalist and pastoralist societies etc.
@SD1Airsoft
7 күн бұрын
"I'm a Christian" and then its just nonstop heresies, half truths, lies, and rumors.. Rudyard I love ya but you really got to stop these faulures
@m3c4nyku43
7 күн бұрын
It's because he's a Ma -son. Not a Christian.
@synth404
Ай бұрын
Let's do Mezopotamia next, maybe one day peloponnesian wars or the different crusader Knight orders
@DFMoray
3 күн бұрын
That was about as accurate as a sawed-off shotgun.
@lostcauselancer333
Ай бұрын
“Iota” isn’t a Greek word, it’s a Greek letter, and it’s the difference between “homoousian” and “homo*I*ousian,” (same substance/different substance). It’s a serious theological debate over the trinity and whether Christ is divine.
@tomislav078
Ай бұрын
Those videos are awesome! Could you make them alot longer? I could listen to them for hours
@loganstrait7503
Ай бұрын
21:00 Ruddy comes really close to explaining that the Grateful Dead is what the early church looked like
@WangHung
Ай бұрын
If you haven't done so yet you should do a rise of Judaism video
@TheGreenKnight500
Ай бұрын
@@WangHung it's never risen. It's always been a minority religion.
@jasonpalacios1363
Ай бұрын
I say you should do the Spanish-American War, the US Westward Expansion, The American Revolution, The War of 1812 and the Spanish Reconquista.
@declanodenki9728
Ай бұрын
9:03 can you please provide some sources of Roman or Greek authors saying things like I don’t believe in the Gods?
@notsocrates9529
Ай бұрын
"No. Don't think I will." 🥄👨🏻🍼
@Chris-es3wf
Ай бұрын
@@declanodenki9728 His point was that most bureaucratic classes provided lip service to the Gods but weren't religious. Consider politicians today. Even today almost no politician would say they are atheist, despite no one actually believing these politicians are at all religious. Similar concept. E.g. Biden is a Catholic, but is ok with abortion. Ted Cruz says he's a Christian but clearly is not. Etc.
@MeanBeanComedy
23 күн бұрын
Peasants weren't afraid of the Eucharist because it was somehow psychedelic. They were afraid from the rhetoric, yet people still sometimes broke in and stole the wine anyhow.
@brycetheice7908
Ай бұрын
Where are you getting your gnostic history from? I’ve done some light research and it usually states that it started as a twisted branch of Christianity with many different versions like Sethians first appearing in either the 1st or 2nd centuries. Not saying that’s correct just wondering where you got the Iraqi origins from
@tianming4964
Ай бұрын
I'm assuming he's saying the dualistic elements of Persian religions particularly Zoroastrianism (which mostly were present in Iraq at that time) influenced gnostic elements in Christianity.
@azlyri
Ай бұрын
In Iraq they are known for their witchcraft and their gold trade.
@ikengaspirit3063
Ай бұрын
Nah, what's i've read as well is that gnostic cosmology of the world that all gnostic groups have to be really considered gnostic, pre-existed Christianity.
@thorpeaaron1110
Ай бұрын
From an apocalyptic Jewish preacher to world religion Christianity has had quite the ride. Your talking about the Sadduces.
@TheGreenKnight500
Ай бұрын
@@thorpeaaron1110 It's crazy how it started off as a lunatic cult that preached the world was ending in everyone's lifetime. It was a genuine lunatic cult and Christians have tried really hard to make people forget that. I think Christianity became less psycho only because it became Europeanized and had Greek and Roman values put into it. If it remained strictly Middle Eastern, it would likely be just like Islam and be the source of mass terrorism.
@ziondelima5136
Ай бұрын
Please interview and talk to Mark Moss. He has interesting insights and theories about different cycles like the one's you talk about in your videos.
@Cgl3g3nd
Ай бұрын
You didn’t mention Alexandria
@aasifazimabadi786
Ай бұрын
It's interesting how Professor Lynch keeps referencing the video on the late Roman Empire (which is natural, as that was produced first), but I am binge-watching from the History 102 playlist that has re-arranged topics in chronological order. As per the playlist, I'm going to watch "Explaining the Fall of Rome" next.
@shaulkofler3247
Ай бұрын
Waiting on history of Judaism, jews and Israel.
@hjs9td
Ай бұрын
The problem with this analysis is that Rome respected religions older than their own. The Jews were given exemptions from Roman religious laws. Despite this, the Jews chafed at Roman rule because they still had to answer to Rome rather than God.
@ponternal
Ай бұрын
I like the podcast but I feel like the other dude dousnt really bring much value at all
@mikaelbohman6694
Ай бұрын
I much prefer your regular, more structured whatifalthistory episodes. These are too rambling and have the maybe inevitable inaccuracies of a spoken format.
@jeffape63
Ай бұрын
Christmas is a Christian holiday, no one disputes that. However, for those claiming the pagans/heathens stole Dec 25 from Christians: Christianity dates from at the earliest, the death of Jesus, approximately 33 AD. In your own holy book, the Bible, pagan customs are mentioned in the Hebrew scriptures/aka Old Testament, mentioning seasonal and moon celebrations specifically. This dates pagan religions, by the testimony of your own holy book, at about 1000 years BEFORE Christianity. Considering that there are archaeological discoveries, such as the Ugaritc texts, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian cuneiform that are even more ancient, that date from before the earliest dates of the Bible, that describe the ancient pagan religions and their habit of celebrating seasonal changes and astrological phenomenon, such as the equinoxes and solstices, it seems rational that a celebration that occurred around Dec 25 existed among pagans, before Christians came to celebrate Christmas. And in fact we know this was the case, the Romans celebrated Saturnalia until Dec 23 and then on December 25 began their Sol Invictus celebration. Many pagan religions had/have celebrations that time of year to celebrate the lengthening of the day. From Nordic/Germanic religion we get the term Yule. Another name for Odin was Jolnir, 'the Yule one.'
@jmanjman2685
Ай бұрын
Tom hollands book on this is so fascinating
@reeldeelz2940
Ай бұрын
Jesus was taken out basically because the messenger got bigger than the message a la Malcom X..
@DFMoray
3 күн бұрын
He was and is the son of God, not a carpenter's son.
@carlossaborio6716
Ай бұрын
Jesus considered himself a Jew, he did not create Christianity as a new religion. Historically that goes to the first pope (Peter) who wanted to differentiate Jesus’ philosophy in order for it to not get lost to the sands of time.
@JacobFraps
Ай бұрын
Christianity is about Jesus Christ
@Fenster21
Ай бұрын
Yes, he did as the messiah predicted by the Torah. “Christianity” is the fullfillment/continuation of Hebrew scripture while post-Jesus Judaism is the schism that rejects the messiah.
@thorpeaaron1110
Ай бұрын
@@Fenster21The Historical Jesus never attended to start a new religion.
@carlossaborio6716
Ай бұрын
@@Fenster21 Jesus stated himself that his teachings were in accordance with the torah. Christ never stablished his own separate church from the Jews during his lifetime. Christianity as a codified religion separate from Judaism began with Peter. Jesus was a jew and Christian’s seem unable to accept that fact and their cognitive dissonance is astounding. The lack of a logical revision of Christianity is just gonna lead to the belief system to crumble like it’s has over the last 2 centuries.
@Fenster21
Ай бұрын
@carlossaborio6716 that's what I'm saying. Jesus was a continuation of Judaism, a fulfillment of the prophesies. Rabbinical "judaism" is a schism off this that reject the Messiah. Christianity is just a renaming of Mosiac Judaism not some separate contrived religion.
@hologramjosh
Ай бұрын
Good video but a few notes: - Rodney Stark argues convincingly that early adopters of Christianity were largely of the upwardly mobile middle class. A better analogy might be a small business owner rather than a walmart worker. - Calling the Essenes "hippies" might be misleading. They observed the ritual law very strictly, but did so in isolated communities not unlike later Christian monasteries. - The third group were called the Sadducees and represented the aristocratic class. They had the most power and best relations with Rome, hence the trend towards Hellenization. - The Rest is History did a good podcast debunking the idea that Xmas was stolen from pagans. Likewise Christians traditionally did not depict God the Father in artwork and depictions of the Father as a Zeus-like bearded man are usually renaissance and later.
@WhatifAltHist
Ай бұрын
Interesting. Thanks
@feliciaf8
13 сағат бұрын
again the 25 december thing is originally Jesus' birthday, you can read how the early church established it, and they already celebrated it in the first century
@George_033
Ай бұрын
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@WizzaStrap
Ай бұрын
What is the name of the Jewish rabbi from 23:40?
@user-pi6oc4st4f
Ай бұрын
Rabbi Hilel
@burneraccount122
Ай бұрын
Been a big fan for a couple years now. Id love to see you do a history video on the early church schisms please.
@ElvargsBane
Ай бұрын
We do need a consistent worldview for the right. Christianity is one present and (I'm biased as a Christian) but it is a pretty good to follow and end up with.
@cmontera1979
3 сағат бұрын
What was the psychedelic in the eucharist?
@hardwing
Ай бұрын
Such a great episode! Still I would have wished for a small tour to the great christian shisms/schools of the beginning, like Arianism and their extend ... I mean wouldn't it make Middle/Eastern Europe christian before the arrival of the huns? Could Persia have converted in time if not for the rise of Islam? Etc. ...The Christian world nearly was much larger and different in the beginning.
@QuizmasterLaw
Ай бұрын
Because of Rudyard Lynch I started writing popular books about society, for example The Tao of Christ: Understanding Chinese Religions in Comparison with Christianity (by Eric Engle). Thank you Rudyard! (or, if you prefer, Mr. Lynch)
@WhatifAltHist
Ай бұрын
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@QuizmasterLaw
Ай бұрын
@@WhatifAltHist If you mean for real" yes in fact. Basically your method is interesting and unique, you look at history both as facts and as various conflicting emotional drives, and with a moral perspective without being moralistic. That's definitely unique. Most of your analysis is qualititative, rather thant quantitative, which is a point to criticize, and when you do get quantitative (Spengler) it's determinist and insufficiently deep to be taken seriously. Macrocyclicity isn't even understood well in economics, where people have money riding on predictions and so consider the question of cyclicity much more intensely. Regarding the rise of Christianity, I shall watch it again, though I don't think you brought out the deliberate christianization of the empire to impose unity sufficiently. Caesar and Christ were nearly contemporaries and both claimed to be god, which is a fact modernity also ignores. Good arguments can be made for Christianity as a covert Caesarism and the empire absolutely needed something to keep all those disparate nations together. I was surprised that as man as 14% of the empire were Jews though I still think its overcounting and wonder how well founded that stat is. I do take your word for it and can understand that after the mass murder of lots of jews that their % dwindled.
@buglepong
Ай бұрын
this history is like mostly wrong lol
@hardyje1915
Ай бұрын
timestamps?
@theofficialchurchofliltay5759
Ай бұрын
Lol Christians were Walmart workers back then
@AJX-2
Ай бұрын
Amazing how God can raise up mighty works out of the lowliest of origins
@mountainmanmike1014
Ай бұрын
No they were Slaves and upper and middle class women. That was its original audience. Feed some slaves bread; tell an old Greek story (reformatted to look more Jewish) about being proud that they are victims. Then rich woman throw money at you. Pocket the coins then move to the next town.
@lawrencek1900
Ай бұрын
Glamorgan was the first Christian Kingdom circa AD 36, then to Rome with its invasion, with King Caratacus's speech to the Roman senate still extant - 1st Century AD
@weldcrafted343
12 күн бұрын
Can you make a video about each religious view on women?
@jonathanh5405
12 күн бұрын
Referring to 10:30 - The Jews revolted because Semitics have an ethno-religious world view (until today), the Romans thought sacrificing to the Emperor means you show loyalty to the Empire, to the Jews it is worshiping a man, which is a very big no-no and has NOTHING to do with secular loyalty which they had no issue with, it's a misunderstanding between different cultures (in Judaism you have only 3 sins for which you should refuse performing even onto death - incest, murder, foreign worship - even in the holocaust you have Jews refusing to kill, even when they know it means they or/and their family immediately being shot in the head for refusing, the Romans put an altar in the holiest of holies in the temple, of course this would bring endless Jewish revolts). Jew and Israeli here
@HunnysPlaylists
2 күн бұрын
if reddit was a video. The Church Spread Two Ways: 1) Miraculously, 2) Bld Of Martyrs. unforgivable blaspheming wont change that.
@angadgrewal9324
Ай бұрын
could you do a video on Sikhism and the mongol empire?
@JesusOrDestruction
Ай бұрын
Explaining the rise of BASED!
@noahtylerpritchett2682
Ай бұрын
Christians with trinitarian beliefs literally went to war over different interpretations of trinitarianism. Correct me if I'm wrong but Armenia killed tens of thousands of Greeks for believing that Jesus Christ was both 100% God and 100% man united under Christ. While Armenians believe Christ is 100% man-god in a Miaphisite style belief. It sounds the same but functions differ and that's theology I am not gonna go into. This was when the eastern Roman empire was at its height after the western Roman empire fell during the age of Justinian.
@yakov95000
Ай бұрын
Very Intresting video from outsider perspective(not Roman and not Christian),still I really love this time period in history. Btw The Rabbi that you mentioning that said "Love your nighbour as you love yourself,this is the entire Torah the rest is commentary" is Rabbi Hillel the Elder(I think he died around 10CE). Hillel was Babylonian Jew not Roman, poor farmer and direct decedent of David line(later the leader of Sanhedrin),who was almost killed as kid climbing the window above Jerusalem Synagogue buried under snow as he wanted to study Jewish laws but didn't have the money. The main reason he is famous is his argument with another famous Rabbi and Av Beit Din(Shammai)which was another leader of Sanhedrin and strick legalist(those are the most famous arguments in entire Talmud)Hillel vs Shammai. One example of thier argument is "what do you say to ugly bride on wedding day"(how and when are you allowed to lie to person)Shammai say that you have to tell the truth as Torah commands and hiding from her will not help,while Hillel said "there is no ugly bride on her wedding day" or what you mentioned before gentile comes to Rabbis asking them to explain the whole Torah while he is standing on one leg(what is the main point),Shammai kicked him out and said that honor of Torah doesn't allow this simplicity and needs to be explored while Hillel says like I wrote before loving the nighbour is main lesson.
@WhatifAltHist
Ай бұрын
Very cool. Thank you
@2bittesla
Ай бұрын
Woke: Never ashamed, eternally offended.
@Chris-es3wf
Ай бұрын
@@2bittesla woke is summarized as identity based ideology.
@2bittesla
Ай бұрын
@@Chris-es3wf ......and those that subscribe to woke are never ashamed and eternally offended.
@user-fw9kv7xc5t
Ай бұрын
I truly wonder what his theology is. It would be interesting to see him integrate all his theory’s and ideas in to a cohesive theology (video idea: would probably piss a lot of people off). I suspect it would either be brilliantly bound together and simple or retarded. I also wonder about the psychedelic Eucharist it seems crazy to me.
@steambub
Ай бұрын
Can you please list the book recommendations in the description. It's hard to read the author and title of these books from a webcam.
@cefalopodo5717
Ай бұрын
Can you please do one on the French Revolution?
@aasifazimabadi786
Ай бұрын
Muhammad (peace be upon him) did not start out as a "warlord." He was a merchant and a shepherd prior to the first revelation of the Holy Qur'an. Peace be upon Jesus of Nazareth as well, and his virgin mother, Maryam (Alaihis Salaam), who was the greatest of all women.
@andyg7693
Ай бұрын
Hi Rudyard, regarding your opening statement about pontius Pilate, you might enjoy The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
@Mcfunface
Ай бұрын
44:30 Arianism says Jesus was Divine, just that he was also created by God the Father. Since Nicenian Creed followers had to do the mental gymnastics claiming a concept as absurd as the Trinity (three Gods in one essence) they could not allow Arian Christianity to compete with their compromise made in the Council of Nicea
@sponge5196
Ай бұрын
Tbh, Arianism makes a lot more sense...early Christianity is wild.
@ITSMRFOXY
Ай бұрын
This is justified with the old testament, wherein god does not have a creator, and can manifest his essence on earth as the burning bush, or as the angel of the lord, yet not being the same person as god, therefore the trinity can work.
@CoramDeogenua
5 күн бұрын
Pontius Pilot was a fan of Jesus and tried to save him. It was the Jewish Pharisees that killed Jesus.
@Wanderer012
Ай бұрын
Is this AI generated 😅?
@ragheb1579
Ай бұрын
please write a script lmao i’m 8 minutes in and you’ve already fucked up a billion times
@MrAwesomeSaucem
Ай бұрын
How did I not know whatifalthist had this channel??????
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