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Was the arab peninsular once ruled by a christian kingdom?
Was the arab peninsular once ruled by a christian kingdom?
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Was the arab peninsular once ruled by a christian kingdom?
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I'm skeptical about this one. If there was a large christian following at that time in arabia, I'm sure there'd be more than just one random relief as evidence.
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Given how weak and persecuted Christianity was before Constantine, I doubt that there was such a Christian empire. The people in Arabia, especially those who traded in frankincense (I forget what the civilization was called) borrowed heavily from different cultures they traded with such as the Greeks and the Romans. If such a depiction is Christian in origin, they may have just met Christians and liked their architecture.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
I see this as reading much into not a lot.
At the time mohammed was supposed to live the restrictions on the art in Islam had not been fully resolved. You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis. (December 22, 2012 at 8:03 pm)Polaris Wrote: Given how weak and persecuted Christianity was before Constantine, I doubt that there was such a Christian empire. The people in Arabia, especially those who traded in frankincense (I forget what the civilization was called) borrowed heavily from different cultures they traded with such as the Greeks and the Romans. If such a depiction is Christian in origin, they may have just met Christians and liked their architecture. What architecture....lol?
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When Mohamed paid respects to the passing funeral entourage of a christian, where do you think he was? Of course there where many christians all over the middle east to India. It is partly because of the consolidation of the various denominations into catholic, and orthodox that the histories of the other denominations, like Coptic, and followers of Thomas, have to a large part been forgotten.
  Quote:Given how weak and persecuted Christianity was before Constantine, I doubt that there was such a Christian empire. Largely later bullshit....but the type of bullshit that xtians love to repeat. In his book on mohammed, Robert Spencer noted coins issued by the first "islamic" conquerors bearing crosses. The real persecution, done by orthodox xtians against so-called Heretics would have had the effect of driving them out of the Eastern Roman Empire and into areas not controlled by either Rome or Parthia. Such an area was Arabia. RE: Was the arab peninsular once ruled by a christian kingdom?
December 24, 2012 at 8:57 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2012 at 9:00 pm by Polaris.)
(December 23, 2012 at 6:20 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(December 22, 2012 at 8:03 pm)Polaris Wrote: Given how weak and persecuted Christianity was Are you laughing at your piss-poor Anglo education?
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