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"Christianity is inherently a peaceful and tolerant religion."
This rhetoric is repeated almost every day by Christians, and it's a nonsensically ignorant stance.
The Crusades are still a sore subject in the Muslim world, but it’s easy to forget the havoc they wreaked...
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This rhetoric is repeated almost every day by Christians, and it's a nonsensically ignorant stance.
The Crusades are still a sore subject in the Muslim world, but it’s easy to forget the havoc they wreaked...
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...on the Jews of Europe. Time after time, as Crusaders slogged southeast on their umpteenth trip to the "Holy Land", they slaughtered the Jews in their path. They herded them into synagogues and set the buildings alight. The Crusaders killed so many Jews in the name of...
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...their Christian faith that it was the most stunning demographic blow to European Jewry until the Holocaust. Which, just a friendly reminder, happened in Christian, civilized Europe only about 70 or so years ago.
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For the past 2,000 years, until Muslim countries expelled their Jewish populations in 1948, Jews have been targets of persecution and intimidation — to put it mildly — at the hands of CHRISTIANS. Jewish life in Muslim countries, though still saddled with all kinds of...
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...restrictions and orders to wear funny clothing and sporadic violence, was far less bloody than in the civilized Christian West. There are so many historical examples I could mention: Christians killing Jews because they blamed them for the plague;...
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...the fact that the word “ghetto” comes from the enclosures in which Jews were forced to live in medieval Venice; the pogroms in which the Russian Orthodox Church encouraged their flocks to kill the non-believing Jews.
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If that’s too far back in time for you, consider July 1988, the 1000th anniversary of the baptism of Russia: Rumours that a pogrom would take place in Moscow to celebrate the day Christianity came to Russia, and that police were handing out addresses of Jews to the public.
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Christianity was ruthless with people whose faith was in any way a deviation from the canon - TORTURING AND BURNING "HERETICS" at the stake. After Martin Luther pinned his theses to a church door, unintentionally spawning a new wing of Christianity,...
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...it led to HUNDREDS OF YEARS of on & off RELIGIOUS WARFARE BETWEEN CHRISTIANS, spilling each other’s blood in the fervent belief that their vision of Christ was the truest. Violence between Protestants & Catholics continued in Christian Ireland until the 20th Century ended.
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Everything Islam is today in terms of violence, Christianity was the exact same - and even much more for at least 700 years. Stop trying to make Christianity look 'lovelier'. It's not!
