Missionaries btfo

If anything is worthy of worship, it's the sun. It literally gives us life. All the energy you've ever had ultimately came from the sun.

sun theory of value, marxcels btfo
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Anus
this is astrology erasure
- good
- No, my plan to build a continent sized rocket booster and yeet Mercury in to Andromeda so the little fucker never retros it's grade again is Astrology erasure.
Nuclear fission/geothermal: am I a joke to you?
- Have you eaten fissile material or lava?
- Fission reactants were formed in a star.

I'm in the first or second chapter of

's Dawn of Everything, and the unearned arrogance the Europeans display to the indigenous Americans is constantly thrown back in their faces.

"You don't feed the hungry, even when when you have food to spare?"

"The only reason your men obey you is because you compel them with fear of violence?"

He goes on to argue that "enlightenment" ideals of human freedom and equality entered the primitive European brainpan through their experiences with truly free people who actually embraced equality. It's a fun read

Dawn of Everything is the first book I would hand to a lib if I was going to try and turn them into a Marxist. Gotta shake those “west is best” and “muh human nature” brainworms first before you will get anywhere, IMO
- I'm a total Graeber shill to libs I know, for basically this same reason. The hard part of getting them to read Dawn of Everything though is that that book is a tome.
- I start with “Bullshit jobs”, because it’s an easy and cathartic read/listen.
Oh man what a fantastic book especially the Indigenous Critique
- If you're into the Indigenous critique of colonial capitalist patriarchy / settler society or whatever name you like, As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a must read. I am telling everyone.
I've been reading "The Many-Headed Hydra" and it covers a similar idea. However it is focused on the Northern Atlantic and Anglos. They go into some detail about the wreck of the ship Sea Venture and the mutiny to stay free on Bermuda rather than return to class based rule. That wreck actually inspired The Tempest

Christian missions are the indoctrination and cultural genocide that the West loves to project onto its enemies. No, teaching kids how to brush their teeth is not cultural genocide - eradicating entire religions is!

My god is real and if you look at it your eyes will burn.

medusa
the sun

It's honestly still a mystery to me how they managed to brute force their way into hegemony, time and time again. Joyless, drab, unappealing...and yet they somehow got the numbers to pull this shit off in the first place.

Just kill everyone who disagree with you
- might be a path worth pursuing
Guns, manufactured goods, liquor, guns, sugar, medicine, guns, and guns.
One of the common tactics was to pick one ethnic group or whatever to be the "civilized" group, then give them guns and tell them that if they want to continue to get guns they'd better get the rest of the region under control, quick, or the guns would stop. YOu make one group really powerful, but not as powerful as your troops, then use them as a club to beat the rest of the region in to submission while also making your aid contingent on wearing clothes, drinking tea, producing export crops, etc.
- Going back further, I wanna know how they even managed to secure enough power to pull off shit like the crusades -- How Christianity became an institution in the first place. I need to look into that at some point.
Immunity to smallpox is a good way to ensure you're the last one standing. Never underestimate the power of poor hygiene and living in close proximity to livestock.
Joyless, drab, unappealing
I mean, liked not mistake early Christian's and Jesuits with modern Protestant normies. The former had a bit more flair.
The guilt trip is real.
Oh and all the other material advantages all the other commenters are saying too. That helps.

"I can see the sun. That helps for credibility."

Stop looking at the sun george

sun gods are so in right now, everyone is saying this

it's that damn sun... he's so hot right now

Praise the Sun! The light bringer!

Don’t tell them about Sol Invicta and Jesus-Helios-son of Isis!

Those just sound like some guys the state department wants to give loot crates to tbh

The guy on the ground is holding a staff, but in the thumbnail it looks like he's pointing his thumb at the missionary "get a load of this bozo" style