Feudalism is not related to time but politics and economy, it was a system first introduced from the franks therefore the first foundation of your concept is wrong.
Galileo one of the most famous persecuted happened to live in Pisa that was a republic anyway.
Giordano Bruno who shared copernicus vision got burned guess guess in the papal state.
You’re not getting what I’m saying: the original, true Christianity did not condone any of that. The heirarchal system that came about AFTER did. It wasn’t religion stomping on innovation, it was a government crushing the questioning of authority. True Christianity never did those things, it’s just that bad people twisted and contorted Christianity to justify it. If the laws of the original teachings of Jesus were properly followed, there would be no such atrocities. There would also be no such thing as a pope or a bishop or whatever, as those were just different rankings in a form of government—a government which sought to keep power for themselves. The means of doing so was religion. Keep in mind that in order to do this, however, they needed to corrupt religion first.
Ehm yes given that I work for the european union I happened to learn those during my studies and I dont understand what do you find so amazing about it, you will find the same things in treaties that regulated european nations everytime someone won a war and someone lost it.
The ottomans made one stupid mistake which was picking the wrong allied in WWI simple as that, unless you believe foreign politics and machiavelism are a conspiracy ofc.
Yeah but none of them said to each other “let’s have an agreement amongst all of us to make sure that this region will never rise up ever again and that we will always have control over it. Oh yeah and let’s also be sure to send people who look like them and talk like them so that we can destroy their religion too”.
Like, what?
There are no such things about europe attacking the muslim first unless you believe of course that those spreading religions do it for peaceful purposes, I mean you see conspiracies where exist real politics yet you believe that those following the coran in the middle age were there to peacefully promote their religion?
By word or sword all shall be converted...but yeah peaceful emissaries only willing to share their religion.
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I know that may seem hard to believe considering that Europe has always been backstabbing and screwing each other over, but not everyone is like that. Rome supported the Ghassanids after they killed Muslim emissaries, Persia did the same and even sent people from their territories in Yemen to order the arrest of Muhammad. Egypt accepted Islam, then other parts of North Africa decided to secede just because the dude in charge wanted power for himself. If you kill an emissary, that’s a declaration of war, especially back then. That would be like storming your country’s embassy and killing all the ambassadors. We almost had war with Iran for that same reason just a few months ago.
And as for Christianity, you are pretty much told you are not allowed to fight someone, not even in self-defense lol. The fact that the crusades existed in spite of this is a testament to the corruption of Christianity due to power hungry assho
les lmao
So the good muslim invaded spain to save the spanish from an oppressive king, kinda remind me of fairy tales I was used to read while I was a kid...there was clearly no agenda behind it.
Anyway let me remind you that our conversation starts from the fact that religions create conflict...I dont really care which one of the christian or muslims were the "bad guys" back then, it still supports my point.
No, you’re misrepresenting the facts. Again. Spain also raided Morocco and was seeking expansion.
Regardless, what you don’t understand is that your statement that religions create conflict is blatantly false. King Roderic still would have been a piece of crap whether religion was there or not; the people would still hate him whether there was religion there or not; the people there would still have sought help from the people living there regardless of religion; and Morocco would eventually get sick of Iberia and attack them later on some point regardless of religion. These were battles that occurred where one side just
happened to have a religion. It was not the cause of it. That would be like blaming someone for dying in a car accident because they drive a car, or blaming someone for getting a stroke because they have a brain. It’s a completely illogical fallacy to make.
Was syria christian or muslim? was palestine christian or muslim? listen its simpe to see who started it, all you have to do it see what it was and then what it became due to warfare.
If muslims invade sweden conquering it then swedes invade it back to reclaim it, who is the bad guy the one who started it or the one we see more often on tv?
Is the bad guy the one who invade a land to push his culture or a guy from the previous culture which try to claim it back?
If you try to mug a dude and then he kicks your ass and takes your money instead, you’re gonna complain about it? What kind of pathetic crap is that? You were the one who intended harm to him first. Yeah, you could say it was your money, but you tried to mug him and got beat for it. Now you’re gonna complain that he took your money after YOU tried to mug HIM?
If we’re really gonna go there, it probably wasn’t even your money to begin with either, you probably stole that money from some other people too. The same thing goes for those territories in the Middle East.
Just as an aside, the Muslims never really destroyed any churches or shrines or temples of worship from other religions as that was forbidden in war (unless the land was bought). I’m fairly certain the original Christianity was the same way too.
Hey dont get me wrong, Im not saying muslims are bad and christians are good...I believe anyone who does bad things is bad simple as that as much as I believe anyone who think and behave like a sheep is a sheep.
Thing is with me, I basically went from religion (born into it) to pretty much no religion and wondering if God even existed (whilst obviously quoting things like evolution and science and all that without even fully understanding its implications). Then I realized I only questioned the religious side and never questioned the non-religious side. That’s when things began to change for me and I started to really see things for how they are.
And look, I’m not gonna say everything that happened in religion was a great thing either, there’s sh
itty things followers of a religion did while believing it was good. I can sh
it on ISIS and Iran all day, I can sh
it on the crusades and the Pope all day, I can sh
it on rabbis and zionism all day. That doesn’t mean that the original message behind the religion was bad. If it were, nobody would follow it. Thing is,
people aren’t perfect. That doesn’t mean we don’t have a perfect ideal though. We just don’t always adhere to that ideal because it just gets hard sometimes.