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When I say Protestant I’m talking specifically about the core idea of the five solas that runs through most non Calvinist protestants. It’s always been faith and works. Indulgences were considered a work.

I mean that’s a part of it. I can’t speak to Judaism or Islam as much, but both Protestant and Catholic Christianity have ideas around faith and works. Catholicism is faith + works, ie you must hold faith and do measurable works for Christ for salvation that determines time spent in purgatory...

It’s not the Abrahamic definition and all three of the “Abrahamic” faiths have different ideas, and each sect within has different ideas as well. “All you have to do is accept gods gift” is a prot who only attends church on Christmas and Easter and never cracked open the Bible’s idea of what...

I mean if you’re going to boil it down to just “both religions say you should be good so the same” well at that point you might as well say all religions up to and including atheist humanism are all just not that different. Everyone says “be good”. What is good is often vastly different between...

The Catholic Church as an institution did a whole lot of sponsorship of science and of development, and seeing as it ran across and through all nations as a hierarchical institution that allowed for coordination between efforts and works of different cultures especially prior to the printing...

An extremely early disastrous defeat followed up by an extremely early incredible victory definitely is one of the unique parts of the Zulu War.

I feel like the “western civilization would be the same without christianity” needs to be hammered in more. Even if we entertain that there was just some atheistic system of morals and ethics somewhat resembling Christian morals and ethics that came about, even being generous and putting it in...

Tbf, that’s Protestant Christianity. Catholic Christianity is faith plus works.

This is even gayer than the take on “if we had just developed the Maus we would have won!” No, no we wouldn’t, because it’s rooted in one central deity, a savior, and the nature of what humans are. You can’t boil a religion down to “a system of morals and ethics”. It’s a view on the function of...

My actual most controversial take is that Great Man Theory is the best way to see history.

Yes, I’m just saying that if it was a different success, they likely still would have intervened with a separate decisive victory, and at least one was basically inevitable, especially given just why Saratoga failed so miserably which is in large part due to the long marches necessary to link up...

I know, I’m just saying that I think that specific battle is somewhat overplayed. It would have probably taken a bit more time or a different battle, but the French still just had ample reason to intervene. Even if they didn’t directly gain territory, the fear was absolutely unchecked dominance...

Eh, I don’t think no Saratoga means no French intervention and it wasn’t even just the French. The Spanish and the Netherlands contributed as well. The war was won in large part because of will to succeed and logistics because ultimately America was such a vast and overall rural land at the time...

I think the decision to bash on the value of militia is also silly. Yes, they weren’t fantastic in the role of going up against British light foot. Neither were World War II guerillas or any non-conventional armed force when going up against a conventional armed force. Thats a total misuse of...