“It may be questioned… whether tithes were anywhere exacted by the apostles; and if we ourselves, born and bred in the faith, do not care to give tithes, how much more must the fierce barbarians, lately converted, resent their exaction.”
Alcuin of York, Ep. 110 (796), trans. Page (1909), public domain. (trimmed quote)public domain
How it works in the game: the move Did the Apostles Take Tithes?
EcclesiologyArgument · power 78 · 100% accurate
In the gameTwo questions, and the second is the one that stings. Where in the apostles is a tithe collected from a new convert — and how hard do we, raised in the faith, find it to pay ours?
Learned byAlcuin’s Letters (Lv 1)
“If… the same pains had been taken to preach to them the easy yoke and light burden of Christ as has been done to collect tithes, and to punish the slightest infringement of the laws on their part, then they would no longer abhor and repel baptism.”
Alcuin of York, Ep. 111 (796), trans. Rolph Barlow Page, The Letters of Alcuin (1909), public domain. (trimmed quote)public domain
How it works in the game: the move The Easy Yoke
EthicsArgument · power 90 · 100% accurate
In the gameAlcuin names the real reason the Saxons refused. They were taxed and prosecuted, with the preaching somewhere behind. Put the effort into teaching instead, and the answer changes.
Learned byAlcuin’s Letters (Lv 46)
Strong against
×3Baptised or Beheadedan argument · why?
Alcuin’s question, asked in 796 and never answered: what if we had preached as hard as we taxed?
