One side was Muslim and the other Christian, what more can I say? Maybe up to over 3 million people were killed and around 100,000 to 200,000 Armenian women and children were forcibly converted to Islam and integrated into Muslim households.
It is also seen as a potential fracture in a relationship with Turkey. But why would Erdogan be angry since it happened during the Ottoman Empire? They are not the same country anymore, although still not very Democratic.
Is the connection Erdogan feels with those people of the past who did the massacre that they were also Muslims?
It is also seen as a potential fracture in a relationship with Turkey. But why would Erdogan be angry since it happened during the Ottoman Empire? They are not the same country anymore, although still not very Democratic.
Is the connection Erdogan feels with those people of the past who did the massacre that they were also Muslims?
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"