— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) October 11, 2025
2:00 Space begins.
3:00 Organised religions
4:00 Engaging with Islamophobes
Can you make head or tail of this exchange?@AGDugin is another Christian who doesn’t understand how Christianity has failed Russians, the Russian Royal Family and the institution of absolute monarchy.
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) October 11, 2025
Nick Land is an atheist who thinks Christians are stupid.
To the extent… https://t.co/gRbj87YZhk
https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=14&verse=21
11:00 Moronic Europeans care more about Israel and are always talking about it because they hate Jews and Muslims much more than they are concerned about a European war with Europeans killing each other that could lead to WW3.
12:00 Europeans hate and fear Jews and Muslims more than they care about each other.
13:00 Psychoanalysis
14:00 "I'd rather die."
15:00 Atheist/nihilist: "I don't care what happens after I am dead."
16:00 Belief in the afterlife is necessary to make us act correctly.
17:00 Nihilists have no convictions but think they might win because they are greater in number.
18:00 Attitude to death
19:00 Herd mentality
20:00 Koranic principles of warfare
21:00 Total war
22:00 Imperial wars in Islam
23:00 Muhammad's letters before invasion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_career_of_Muhammad
25:00 Christians are the pot calling the kettle black.
26:00 Why European warlords chose Roman Catholicism
Seneca
27:00 Barbarian European kings
30:00 The traumatised European
32:00 Doubling down on lies and nonsense
The Catholic Church has a historical reputation for involvement in several notorious document forgeries, particularly during the early medieval period, where such fabrications were used to bolster papal authority, ecclesiastical power, and independence from secular rulers. These incidents were not isolated but part of a broader pattern in medieval Church politics, though the Church later disavowed many of them once exposed. Below, I'll outline the most prominent examples based on historical scholarship.Key Historical ForgeriesContext and LegacyThese forgeries were often created by Church officials or allies amid power struggles, reflecting the era's norms where fabricating precedents was a common political tool—not unique to the Church but prominently associated with it due to its institutional influence. They contributed to the "revolution" in Church governance by enhancing papal centralization, but once revealed, they damaged credibility and prompted reforms like the Council of Trent (1545–1563), which purged forged texts from canon law collections. Modern historians view them as products of their time rather than evidence of systemic deceit, though critics (including some Protestant reformers) have used them to argue against papal infallibility.In summary, while not the sole perpetrators of medieval forgeries, the Catholic Church is indeed "known" for these episodes in historical annals, as they significantly shaped its development and were exposed through internal and external scrutiny. For deeper reading, sources like Valla's De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione provide primary critiques.
- Donation of Constantine (8th century): This was a forged imperial decree purportedly issued by Emperor Constantine the Great in the 4th century, granting the Pope vast temporal authority over the Western Roman Empire, including Rome and its territories. It was likely created in the 8th century to justify the papacy's claims against the Byzantine Empire and Lombard kings. The forgery was exposed in 1439–1440 by Renaissance humanist Lorenzo Valla through philological analysis, but it had already influenced papal governance for centuries. Even after exposure, Pope Nicholas V suppressed Valla's work while employing him, highlighting the document's lingering impact.
- Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals (False Decretals, mid-9th century): This extensive collection of over 100 forged papal letters, conciliar decrees, and saints' writings was compiled around 845 CE, primarily to protect bishops from metropolitan (archbishop) oversight and to centralize power under the Pope. It fabricated Church history to support these aims, including false claims about early popes. The forgeries infiltrated canon law and were cited for centuries until definitively debunked in the 16th century by scholars like Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. Catholic sources acknowledge their influence on medieval Church structure but note they were not officially endorsed by the papacy at the time of creation.
- Symmachian Forgeries (early 6th century): Produced in the curia (administrative court) of Pope Symmachus (r. 498–514) during a schism, these documents included fake acts of early Church councils and papal letters to defend Symmachus against accusations of immorality and to assert papal supremacy over secular judges in ecclesiastical trials. They were used to sway the Roman Synod of 502 and shaped later canon law, though their authenticity was questioned by the 16th century.
33:00 Monarchy
34:00 Fairy tales of childhood
36:00 No proper training for kingship
37:00 Shura
39:00 The tyranny of the majority
40:00 Bourgeoisie v Proletariat
41:00 Gender roles
42:00 Househusbands
46:00 Rules and hierarchy
47:00 The Gondoliers by Gilbert & Sullivan
48:00 Political parties are amoral tribes indifferent to the long term national interest.
49:00 Determining harm
50:00 What is in the national interest?
51:00 Alcohol
53:00 Sodomy
54:00 Liberalism is a way of being free of Christianity.
55:00 Extreme sexual liberation
56:00 Gender roles
57:00 Social problems
58:00 Harm
59:00 Pandering to the female voter
1:01:00 Muslims have already been around for 1400 years. Can we say the same about liberalism?
1:02:00 We do not have a proper name for our official moral system if we have one at all.
1:05:00 The consequences of not performing our gender roles
1:06:00 Sexual liberation
1:07:00 Because Westerners cannot take marriage seriously, they cannot take gender roles seriously.
1:08:00 Narcissistic displays
1:09:00 Governments should be breeding its citizens.
1:10:00 Christianity is uncodified.
1:11:00 Extreme freedom leads to the law of the jungle.
1:13:00 The so-called Free West
1:14:00 Till death do us part.
1:15:00 Henry VIII
Pederasty
1:16:00 Bachelor tax and mercenaries
1:17:00 Labour shortage
1:19:00 The parasitic priesthood
1:21:00 The Church lowering standards of morality
1:22:00 Principles to die for
1:24:00 Daddy issues
1:25:00 Are there really more Christians than Muslims?
Would the total number of Orthodox Christians and confirmed Christians exceed the number of self-identified Muslims in the world?
No, the total number of Orthodox Christians and confirmed Christians would not exceed the number of self-identified Muslims in the world.
To address this, I'll first clarify the terms based on standard religious demographics and definitions:Using the most consistent 2025 projections from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary):
- Orthodox Christians refers to Eastern Orthodox adherents (including Oriental Orthodox in some broader counts, though typically distinct).
- Confirmed Christians aligns with the Catholic sacrament of Confirmation, which completes Baptism and is received by the vast majority of adult Catholics (estimated at nearly all of the ~1.3–1.4 billion total Catholics, as annual confirmation statistics track new recipients rather than a separate "confirmed" subset). Protestant traditions vary on Confirmation, but it is not universal, so this term is primarily associated with Catholicism.
- Self-identified Muslims uses standard global estimates of those who identify as Muslim, regardless of practice level.
This combined total of 1.57 billion is less than the 2.06 billion self-identified Muslims. Even using the higher Vatican estimate of 1.41 billion Catholics for confirmed Christians yields ~1.70 billion total, still below the Muslim figure.
For context, total affiliated Christians (including Protestants and Independents) is ~2.49 billion, which would exceed Muslims—but the question's phrasing specifies "Orthodox and confirmed," excluding broader Protestant groups without universal Confirmation.
1:28:00 The ruling classes think Christians are stupid.
Aleksandr Dugin and Nick Land
1:30:00 Accelerationism
1:32:00 Antisemitism and Islamophobia
1:34:00 Religion supports marriage.
1:36:00 The epistemological validity of the Koran
1:38:00 Being a Principled Agnostic
1:40:00 The atheist view of Creation
1:41:00 Teleology
1:42:00 Right thought, right speech, right action
1:43:00 Monotheism
1:44:00 The purpose of the appendix
1:46:00 The purpose of our life
1:48:00 The purpose of our life is to fulfil our potential.
1:51:00 What Abu Muslim said about ethical monotheism
1:53:00 Anthropomorphism is idolatry.
1:54:00 Shahada
1:57:00 Truth, Logic and Morality
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