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Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) by triceratops on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:37PM (#25087168)
> By having a notion of some god, and a cannon, you can have a list of ideas that everyone considers good, and it makes such demagoguery a little more difficult.

Where do events such as the Spanish Inquisition or the Crusades fit into that idea?

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Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) by 1123581321 on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:03PM (#25090196)
Those are appropriate examples as in each of those, popular and political movements were checked by the shared morals of Christianity, and the desires of kings were moderated by widely accepted church teachings.
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