/lit/ - Literature

>>15493894
because of foreign pressure, commerce and defense

>>15493894
Because it’s true anon

God softens hearts

>>15493894
>>>falling for the race meme
the only true answer is “to get those sweet Mediterranean tradebux”

>>15493894
>Be pagan
>World is always on a decline, sliding to ruin because your gods left earth long time ago
>Only hope for salvation is violent bloodshed in one form or another
>Worship strongstman as literal descendant of a god
>Collect all the gold from pillaging to fill a void in yourself and keep your warriors le happy
>still feelsbad when you raping all the waifus to prove you still get erectus
>feelsbad when your firstborn is poisoned by second waifu and you have to give her to le warriors as punishment
>feelsbad when you are 60 years old and need to kill the young strongstmen to prove you're still of worth as leader
>never know love except when you show how strongst you are and how powerful your loins are or how much gold you can gibs
>Here comes christian
>"Wine can be blood, drink up and live forever in perfect world of your imagination after you die"
>"Gold is a material thing, don't think about the material world anymore, think on salvation after you die"
>"You killed people? Drink more wine and forgive yourself, your victims also forgive you because they live in eternal happy and are grateful you sent them to magic kingdom prematurely"
>"god will always love you, even when you big bad"
>Pagan "T-this is real? No more feelsbad? No more pillaging and raping? I-i'm tired of collecting wives who try to poison me and my sons"
>Christian "yes this is real, drink wine and forget"
>"now marry this le christian loli who just wants to talk about le gods love all day and prepare you for afterlife"
See how easy it is?

>>15493894
>the most wild and unchristian people in europe
meme

>>15494022
*tip*

>>15493894
Why exactly did the Armenians perhaps the most wild and unchristian people in Anatolia, take to christianity almost as soon as they were exposed to it?

>>15493934
Clearly not.

>>15493894
They literally didn't.

cause they stoooopid

>>15493894
Because they were LARPING as Romans and to be a Roman you had to be a Christian. All the Franks and Visigoths etc. wanted to be "King of the Romans" and take over the ancient Roman offices and traditions, literal "WE WAS ROMANZ N SHIEEET" memes but it became reality and suddenly the conquerors had adopted the religion (and language) of the conquered.

>>15494164
That’s not a meme, sonny