RE: Jihad v. Crusades
February 27, 2015 at 1:51 am
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2015 at 2:02 am by wiploc.)
(February 25, 2015 at 9:29 pm)mralstoner Wrote: Why would Christians be slaughtering other Christians if this is a religious Crusade?
On one occasion, it was to pay for a boat ride. As in, "Sure, we'll transport you to the holy land, if you'll pay us for wiping out that rival trading center."
During the Children's Crusade, they (Christians) loaded up ships full of child Crusaders, and instead of transporting them to the holy land, they just sailed over to Africa and sold them as slaves. That may not count as "slaughtering other Christians," but it was still pretty Christian.
When the Crusaders conquered Constantinople, you can blame that partly on sectarianism.
(February 26, 2015 at 2:06 am)mralstoner Wrote: If one religion wants to behead you, and the other wants to wash your feet, that's kind of a big difference.
I might be beheaded for coming out in certain Arab countries, but I have no idea where I'd go to get my feet washed. When I came out in Houston, my headlights were smashed, and I had thirteen tires slashed.
(February 26, 2015 at 1:57 am)SeanBean Wrote: Weren't the Byzantines Orthodox and technically heretics?
To call them "heretics" is to take the position that there is a right way to be Christian. It is to say that the Catholics are doing it right, and the Orthodox are doing it wrong. But there's no right way to do a wrong thing. There is no correct interpretation of nonsense and contradictions.
