Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Skinny Monk vs Fat Monk: Medieval Rule Breakers" video.

  1. Pope Urban II: "That's nothing, I asked them not to use crossbows and now look at them, they've got fully automatic fire crossbows with infinite range"
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  2. This is our society now, where expressing genuine appreciation for fun and educational content is cringeworthy
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  3.  @turtlellamacow  I have met a guy who spent almost a decade of his life in an Orthodox monastery in Russia so it's only cringeworthy to you I guess.
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  4.  @turtlellamacow  1) That's an assumption you made based on absolutely no evidence, other than you're assuming he's lying because it's the internet. That's often a valid assumption to make, but the smarter move would have been to not comment at all, because talking to a malicious actor yields no benefit. If you engage, you may as well assume the person is not lying, or your engagement is pointless. 2) Total non sequitur and I'm sure you would have a different opinion if he were not Christian. See? I can make assumptions too.
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  5.  @turtlellamacow  Ah, then we are kindred spirits. My mistake, most people scoff at internet arguments. In regards to point 1, if you are not a monk, there is nothing preventing you from becoming an ascetic type of person who is not accepted into a monastery. I have no reason to believe he would not have done this, given how many people do this in real life anyway. Just look at vegans; they're not even driven by faith (although I personally find their behavior just about as irrational). As for point 2, I learned a long time ago that despite being an atheist, ridiculing people does not serve any useful purpose. The best thing to do, if you really want to sow the seeds of doubt, is to get a religious person to ask their own questions in a non-assuming manner, usually by asking them questions they may find it difficult to answer. They may get angry anyway but there isn't anything you can do about that. Furthermore, it is undeniable that without religion (and yes even the organized church, as many bad things they have done) we would not have a lot of culture that we find valuable today, most notably a vast array of teachings from the ancient Romans. I am of Germanic descent but to put it bluntly the Germanic people around the fall of Rome were barbarians and had no respect for their culture. They would not have had any reason to preserve it if it were not for Christian monks. It is also important to realize that Abrahamic religion is actually quite unique. Most religions before Judaism, Christianity and Islam are polytheistic and exist to provide a tradition for culture to be passed down from generation to generation. They usually don't have hard and fast rules but provide guidelines and examples through parables. Put simply if it wasn't for these "pagan" religions (and the usually-Christian monks who recorded them) we would have almost no idea about Norse culture at all, just as one example.
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