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What is the magic of martyrdom? How is it that Christianity took over the world through it?

Physically it causes reactions but it has to be some sort of dark magic for it to have been so contagious.

>> No.22014099

>>22014070
slave morality

>> No.22014115

>>22014099
Yet it's effective. Not for the slave who died but for the other slaves. It's like nature protects them.

It has to be something to do with Galton's board.

>> No.22014166

>>22014099
>>22014115
It's all an illusion, Christianity is an illusion. And it still runs the world to this day.

>> No.22014535

>Books on martyrdom
You should read up on Sikhism and the Shia's
Both are build upon martydom much like Christianity

>> No.22014572

>>22014070
Bowersock, Martyrdom and Rome
First hand accounts are not bad either, you can find them collected in Acts of the Christian Martyrs.

>> No.22014582

I only comprehend the words that I comprehnd

>> No.22014589

Lives of saints was probally for the biggest genre for about 1000 years, you have your pick

>> No.22014627
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Exhortation to Martyrdom by best boy.

>> No.22014685

The writings of Rene Girard and Leon Bloy come to mind. There’s also the church fathers and the saints obviously.

>> No.22016202

>>22014572
>>22014535
>>22014627
If it's common in various religions wouldn't there be an anthropological analysis?

>> No.22018164

>>22016202
>anthropological analysis
I wish there was a book on it
But martyrs are central to only some religions

>> No.22018745

>>22014070
Read the Dawn Breakers

>> No.22018800

>>22014070
Girard scapegoat theory and Jesus is a metaphor

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>Physically it causes reactions but it has to be some sort of dark magic for it to have been so contagious.

>> No.22020138

>>22018164
>>22018800
To be so decadent that you die for decadence. It's the ultimate corruption of dignity.

>> No.22020172

>>22018800
>>22014627
>>22014535
>>22014572
>>22020124
Is resentment love?

>> No.22021528

>>22014070
It´s game theory. Cheap vs non-cheap signals, death is the ultimate price, sends the strongest signal

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>all the filthy materialists in this thread

Go pray the Rosary and realize that the afterlife is real.

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>>22020138
>>22014099
>>22014166
>t. weakling BTFO watching le horse getting beaten