RE: If Islam is a religion of peace why did it expand through military conquests?
February 22, 2014 at 5:16 pm
(January 20, 2014 at 3:09 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Monotheism has always been imposed on population with armed force, from Ezra's coup over Judea, christianity through Europe by the Roman and Byzantine Empires, Across Germany, Scandinavia and Russia all by armed force, then to the various European colonies... Islam simply follows the same pattern.
Can't believe I missed this one....must be getting old.
That's a very insightful point, Mr. G. We have evidence of polytheistic societies accepting and even incorporating local gods into the worship scheme. From a practical point of view it is a way to co-opt the existing priest class into the new order by allowing them to continue ripping off the populace as they had before. The Romans were notoriously tolerant of local gods and on one occasion (204 BC) deliberately imported Cybell from Asia Minor.
But monotheists cannot have that kind of toleration it seems. Their dictum that their god is the only god seems to compel them to be barbarians...in spite of what their fucking god says.
