RE: 'For Allah' Inscription Found on Viking Era Ring
September 28, 2021 at 8:11 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2021 at 8:12 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(September 27, 2021 at 3:16 pm)WinterHold Wrote: How much did Islam influence the western culture is beyond me.
Probably the raiding and warring part (for which Vikings and Muslims were notorious for) came from the Islamic influence.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"