But RPG Maker, my love…

He is in my heart, always.

Everytime I see somthing like this it further entrenched my belief that religion destroyed Rome.

As someone who is both anti-Christian and pro-Roman, I’d like to note that Rome’s fall was not fundamentally caused by Christianity. Christianity was a minor issue in the overall fall of the Empire, with most of the problems that caused the decline and fall being written on the wall when paganism still reigned supreme and Christianity was barely known or understood by the powerful men of the Empire. Christianity did not cause the aristocracy or the autocracy that drained the Empire of its ability to coordinate its resources, nor did it cause the rampant militarism, nor the breakdown of the decentralized imperial ideology of the first 2-3 centuries of the Empire. Rome did all that to itself.

I’d also note sympathetically to your point, though, that Christianity was still damaging to the Empire, with its pointless squabbles both over ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘pagans’, its obsessive wealth-draining posturing, the persecution of intellectuals and artists, and the mass abandonment of public life in exchange for spiritualist careers leeching off of those still actually contributing to society.

So definitely fuck Christianity, it just wasn’t the core cause.

When I was growing up, even in a very Christian conservative household, my mother was very open to me about drugs and what they meant. She related her own experiences as well as that of people she knew clearly, honestly, and without scaremongering. From that, I had a passing interest in LSD that I never acted on, but everything else sounded rather… not worth the trouble.

In middle school, back in the mid-2000s, we had water bottles banned because of kids bringing in vodka in them. By high school, we had regular bomb threats. Good times!

Christianity too sour

GI Robot

He has one character trait, and it’s the best one (killing Nazis)

My mother told me not to do any illegal drugs because if she ever had to bail my ass out of jail, she’d’ve been pissed.

I’d like to say it worked, but honestly, I’ve just never had the interest.

ngl I’m a little tempted now

Maybe both are bad?

“Facebook should be under incredibly strict regulation or killed outright” is also a position I’m fond of.