RE: Damned Christians
November 28, 2024 at 1:06 am
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2024 at 1:06 am by Fake Messiah.)
(November 27, 2024 at 10:39 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Easily.
"Lo tirsah" does not translate directly to kill and allows for self-defense, and the Crusades were in response to hundreds of years of Islamic aggression and taking of slaves across the Mediterranean, with the original specific goal of reclaiming cities with century old Christian communities - many founded by Europeans - that had been occupied by the Caliphates.
Even if the Crusades were "just" against the Muslims, it doesn't make Catholics look any better.
But you are uninformed, as usual. Crusades were against all religions that were not Catholic. Thus, you had the slaughter of Cathars in France known as the Albigensian Crusade. There were also Northern Crusades against non-Christians in Europe. Crusaders would also regularly slaughter Jews in Europe. There was also the famous Battle on the Ice fought in Russia when the Catholic Church tried to violently impose Catholicism on the Orthodox Christians in Russia and failed spectacularly. And so on.
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"
