Leolas

I have a question: using a mod like this one can be risky? I mean, could EA ban me from SC 2013?

my President, Berlusconi, is not virtuous at all (you probably have already heard some "funny" stuff about him), but he lives veeery well In my opinion, it's a republican constitution that cannot survive without virtuous people :/

Originally posted by: anytownusa I believe our Faith in Jesus Christ brought us out of the Dark Ages. Western Civilization consisted of nothing more than a whole continent of barbarians. It wasn't until we became Christians that we began to really develop. The introduction of Christianity into Europe cannot be overstated. If we ceased to be a Christian culture we would go right back to being barbarians as proven by events such as the holocaust. In 1492 the Spanish pushed the last muslims out of Europe, making the continent entirely Christian. That was the exact same year Christopher Columbus discovered North America. Not a coincidence. Maybe when we bring the whole world to Christ we will finally discover a new inhabitable planet somewhere in the universe. quote> You have some confusion in your head, actually. The Faith in Jesus Christ brought us TO the Dark Ages, and only the illuminists and the scienstist and philosophers that were allowed to talk brought us away from the Middle Age. It went like that: romans and greeks (and other ancients population) were all pagans, and believed in their gods. At that time, they made an unbelievable developement, trust me. Then, there was Jesus Christ, and Rome, after civil wars where the empire was a bit destroyed, became christian. All the barbarians that lived in europe became christians too, and after conquering rome (that became weak for many reasons, but also because of the civil wars caused by the christians), they turned 100% christians: in the 800ad, the pope made Carlo Magno the Emperor of the Sacre Unite Empire. Then, just christians and muislems: the christians were aristotelics/tolemaics and accepted only their ideas, in order to gain stability: every scientist who wanted to dicover new things about humankind could be killed by the christian inquisition (or just shut up, as they did with Galileo Galilei). The muslems, that were before like barbarians, became the new center of culture of the weastern world. They also saved us, europeans, from a cinese invasion Only when the Church became weak, the people of the weastern world could began making new discovery about medicine, anatomy, space... It's simply untrue that europeans were barbarians before the church: they were very developed (at least rome, spain and greece), and, sorry to tell ya, but the Church was actually conquered by barbarians That's history. Anyway, sorry I went OT, but I had to answer Returning on the main question: all what you find on the Bible and so on comes from previous religions and philosophers, mainly aristoteles and tolomeus, but also from old pagan religions, socrates, plato, and many other. So, there actually isn't a real christian culture, so well... The entire system of govenement is ancient, democracy and government aren't new stuff. So how can you tell if something comes from god, or from our minds? Natural law is not enough for our weastern democracies: natural law would mean "the strongest wins", which is something that is not 100% true, even though it has some sense: Plato, for example, believed that only people who don't have occupation, that have studied a lot and have enough money can rule a country, and we see partly also now: we never see a poor man or a man who hasn't studied as a chief of a state. Is this natural law? Partly, in our society those men are the men who have Power, but a real natural law can be better seen in a dictatorship By the way, our governments are based on thoughts of ancient philosophers, and those aren't natural law..

I'm italian, but i wanted to say something anyway: I don't think it's true that the human kind made more progress now than in the last 5000 years. I don't know how much you study about ancient Romans, Greeks and Muslems in USA, but believe me, it's unbelievable how many stuff the greeks and the romans discovered and developed. Culture, politics, medicine, working tools, aqueducts, transportation, music, food, economy...... There's an episode of the Simpsons where lisa and bart end up in a parallel dimension of the earth where there was no Church: they were 1million time more developed than us I'm not so drastic, because religion wasn't the only reason why there was a "dark age" in our eastern world after 400ad (and actually, when we stopped developing stuff, muslems began doing it, and thanks to them we still know all the discoveries of greeks and romans, plus many other new stuff). I haven't understood if that text is just about north america: in that case, I believe that the native americans didn't actually discovered many things (while in south america there were big metropolies in the 1*00ad). All what we discovered in the last 200 years, could be discovered only thanks to the previous discoveries.. It's true, though, that thanks to the informatics we made a big jump ahead (and also the computer is actually an "old discovery": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing )