Intergalactic Summit

To educate at the barrel of a gun? That, sir, is not education but, physical coercion under penalty of great bodily harm or death. Offering a man the "choice" of accepting your theology and culture or shooting him in the head is no choice at all.

Im sure the Federal authorities go house to house with military hardware asking if their children are in school and summarily executing said child if they do not have a full attendence record.

No no, the right way to treat Imperial Navy personell, besides i support anyone who goes against Amarrian loyalists.

Do try to pay attention Mr Blake.

If you think so, Mr Blake.

There is an equivalence of responsibility to do your best for those under both your protection, granted your illustration is nicely scewed to pull on the heartstrings of the Gallente Sympathisers who follow your every word i am sure. However, the fact of the matter is that God has instructed us as his tools in this realm to do our best for those around us, and we follow his word. Your ignorance of these instructions may be remedied easily, we have monasteries and retreats where you may visit to learn more of Gods work, i would encourage you to visit them.

Fighting against Gods forces will however carry punishments that may require lifetimes of service to work off the penance for doing so under the eyes of a Holder of the Empire, however for those who come to accept God their is no requirement to serve like this, you may see this in the faces of the pilots who fly for the CVA, pilots of all races fly for them and serve them willingly, and very few of these have ever been slaves.

Granted what does it say of an empire who allow Slaves to fly a Pod fitted vessel? I have heard of some but have not met them myself, perhaps i should endeavour to do so it should help motivate those under my command to rise above thier meagre stations.

Now has anyone heard of my the welfare of my slave? I fear i may have to throw a wake in his memory and ask the priests to pray for his soul.

The scewing was referring to sending people to school with a gun, something we do not do. As for the apparant insult? Well you are an egger, I would imagine that this is something to invoke awe in your culture, after all, you don't really care for your souls do you? Otherwise you would have accepted the one true faith , as you have rejected them, there is little to be done for you, however it may be that we may save your descendants.

In actual fact, ‘God’ means a great deal to me, though I don’t usually refer to the Divine by that particular name. Referring to ‘Him’ as ‘God’, I think, implies knowledge of nature and personality, which I don’t believe humans can possess. And if I’m sceptical of those who suggest that much knowledge, you can imagine how suspicious I am of those who reckon to know ‘His’ will, and use it to justify violence and oppression.

And as much as I might misunderstand your religion – as you rightly suggest, I’ve spent little time studying Amarr scripture – I am as aware as anyone else of the acts of the Empire over the years. I don’t for one moment suggest that any one of our nations is free of guilt in the humanitarian stakes – but as far as I know Amarr is the only one that claims the divine right to commit atrocity.

Amarr scripture, of course. The crux of the matter is this:

It surely doesn’t take a theologian to see that if I accept the Scripture as true then I will believe the Scripture is true.

I should just clarify here that I’m not condemning the Amarr as a people – I don’t know nearly enough about them to do that. But I can condemn what their Empire has done, much as I can condemn many of the things my own mother State has done, and even, to some degree, some of the policies of my adoptive Federation. In all cases, it is the leadership – in the Empire’s case, the religious leadership – who bear the responsibility for these things.

As I said, I’m no theologian. Certainly I know little about Amarrian doctrine save what I read in this forum. But if what seems to me to be an obvious flaw in their basic reasoning can only be addressed by telling me I’d feel differently if I was a believer, or that their theologians have spent millennia figuring out workarounds, then I don’t see that it’s any less a flaw.

I think it would be ungracious of me to offer further comment here.

That is what someone would call the paradox of free will. You are free to choose to do the wrong thing but you should not do that thing in question.

What makes free will a blessing is choosing to serve in God's light when the time comes to knowingly make that choice.

How or where is what you take issue with.

So the only way to have free will is by not having free will at all?

Sorry, I don't buy it.

When you word it like that then yes I see your point. I can't agree with it due to a different opinion on faith, but there it's probably best to agree to disagree.

There's a difference between choosing faith and stealing though, choosing to not believe doesn't cause anyone else grief (unless they're incapable of not meddling in the affairs of others) stealing does.