(April 16, 2022 at 12:57 am)WinterHold Wrote: Muslims weren't destroyers of civilizations, thank you for your remark.
Unlike the Conquistadors, the Mongols and other toxic expansions, Muslims kept every civilization intact, the Egyptian pyramids are an example.
In the early days of Islam as they conquered nations, Muslims were tolerant of Christians and Jews. That's one of the reasons why they were so successful in their military campaigns because, by the 7th century, Christians were fighting so much amongst each other that they just let Muslims conquer them. Muslims preserved the Coptic Church in Egypt which was in the 7th century proclaimed heretical by the Church in Rome and they would have been wiped out by Christians if Muslims didn't taken over Egypt who "only" demanded that Christians pay them regularly and they can survive, although it wasn't without excesses.
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"
