I have a friend who is an orthodox Christian. Vlad the Impaler got brought up and he said that what he did was "not very Christian behavior."

This is why I'm not big on religion, particularly Christianity in this particular instance. There is so much pussying around. I love Jesus but I really don't think the way is letting your enemies trample over you and just hoping that somehow truth and light will overcome. Sometimes you need to be the villain in someone else's story. Sometimes people deserve a taste of their own medicine.

You should try to give people the peaceful opportunity to see the light and to accept God's grace. To love all that is beautiful and fight against whatever is evil. If they turn it away, if they want to impose their rule on you by force, you simply cannot let them. Extending a hand is all well and good until it is chopped off, because if you can no longer extend your hand then you are useless.

@beardalaxy I wonder how many of Vlad Tepes' alleged atrocities were propaganda spread by his political enemies.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad @beardalaxy the forest of impaled corpses was real, but he did it for good reasons. he was a rational actor managing a weak state doing what he could to deter the Ottomans from moving north against him. maybe the extent of it was embellished over the years.