Crusades:Your Opinion

[beenie]

That comes with the glory of being the supreme overlady of all people, ssainhu.

Or of all cartoons. Whatever.

:flower:

 

[Wirey]

:flower:

He gets a flower and I get a raspberry! You cartoon people are bad!

 

[Aquitaine]

Other: A fine example of just how disgusting and evil mankind can be. Rich men after fortune, poor men tempted with salvation, and they left a path of terror, rape, murder, and destruction from Europe to Asia. Every Jewish and pagan settlement they came across was just practice for when they finally got to the Levant.

^ This.

 

[Alceste]

Violence is not necessary. Birth control is preferable.

 

[beenie]

He gets a flower and I get a raspberry! You cartoon people are bad!

:foryou:

 

[LuisDantas]

See? I told ya that there is a price to be paid for yielding that much power.

 

[roger1440]

Maybe...
But dont forget, Muslims had been conquering Christian territories from Spain to Syria for 4 centuries. From 1071, Muslim Turks were conquering Christian Byzantine Empire. I hardly hear anyone saying that it was Islamic Patriarchal Imperialism.

One has nothing to do with the other. An action is either right or wrong on it's own merits.

 

[beenie]

See? I told ya that there is a price to be paid for yielding that much power.

So much responsibility!

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I am beginning to think that Islam is probably Phil's bugbear

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Maybe...
But dont forget, Muslims had been conquering Christian territories from Spain to Syria for 4 centuries. From 1071, Muslim Turks were conquering Christian Byzantine Empire. I hardly hear anyone saying that it was Islamic Patriarchal Imperialism.

What's your opinion of the sack of Constantinople in 1204? Not sure it quite fits the narrative you're building here.

 

[s2a]

Maybe...
But dont forget, Muslims had been conquering Christian territories from Spain to Syria for 4 centuries. From 1071, Muslim Turks were conquering Christian Byzantine Empire. I hardly hear anyone saying that it was Islamic Patriarchal Imperialism.

If the irony in this declaration weren't so thick, we might then avoid the ultimate futility of human conflict in warfare.

The ultimate futility in attempts to somehow *prove* that your "god" can beat up someones other "god" is the very defining element of impotence and stupidity.

Yet, the argument goes on, in ultimate futility and sustained ineffectiveness...

...and thousands die, pointlessly.