RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 28, 2021 at 9:34 pm
(December 28, 2021 at 9:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 28, 2021 at 7:55 pm)WinterHold Wrote: No, I find it disgusting because it is hellish, inhumane punishment only a backward fiend would think about it.
Islam did the world a favour by ending the heathen Christians of Turkey once and for all.
Not even close; Irene was a heathen Christian and had fanatic reasons to treat her son that way.
She wanted to make an example out of him.
Yes?
Obviously the heathens "started to take over the Western Church", and civil wars started in the "Eastern Church" between heathen enthusiasts -like Irene- against non-heathens like her son "Constantine"; thus she made an example out of him by blinding him and turn Christianity in the East to a heathen faith.
But you seem perfectly OK with hellish, inhumane punishments meted out in Muslim cultures. Why is that?
Boru
Nothing ever in Islam compares to "Blinding":
