Christian judges worked out horribly for the peasants of the dark ages. Why can’t you just rule yourself? lol arm yourself, live in a safe community, and avoid dangerous situations. These are things you are already doing but for some reason you attribute that to government instead of your judgment. These are decisions you’ve made intentionally. Why is your government so different from the government in Chicago or Los Angeles? It’s the people not the government. The reason you have good peaceful neighbors is because they are good peaceful people. It’s not because they’re afraid they will get in trouble.
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Not everyone who is here is from here. Should we really put a wall around the town? How does that make me more free? That just collapses the borders inward to a walled town.
You assume too much about my neighbors. This region has one of the worst sex:ratios in Europe and the frustration is palpable.
Safe communities are safe because good men police them and create a realistic threat.
Splitting hairs here but there were no "dark ages". The Medieval period was complicated period but full of such light and glory it would be blinding to our modern, darkened eyes.
True Christian judges are the most equipped people on the planet to administer justice since they know the Source of all justice.
You can believe that if you want but the historical evidence suggests otherwise.
You can believe the "evidence" if you want but actual history suggests otherwise.
The church being extremely corrupt is actual history but maybe you’d need to actually study history first to know that. Priests and church members are fallible humans. Idk why that’s hard for some people to accept.
Like I said, complicated. I'm a protestant in the reformed tradition so I am well aware of historical church corruption. But to see the entirety of the medieval period as one giant epoch of church corruption is a sad and flattened view.
I'm not looking to dunk on you, to be clear. You're not wrong that there were periods and regions where the peasantry suffered under unjust rulers and clergy. But the Church Age, built atop the Scriptures, is why we today can even have this discussion. Our freedoms, senses of justice, tools of liberty—our whole moral framework—is the fruit of Christendom, and medieval Christendom especially.