He spoke of “overwhelming force” and the U.S. military’s unmatched ability to rain “death and destruction from above” on its “apocalyptic” Iranian foes.
Then, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, standing in the Pentagon, issued a call to the American people for a specific kind of wartime prayer. He asked them to pray for victory in battle and the safety of their troops.
“Every day, on bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches,” he said, “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
Fuck Christianity.
Fuck belief without evidence
Remember everybody, this is a Christian war. One of MANY.
It’s still the crusades for Jerusalem. Nothing has changed
But I was assured only Islam is a bad religion.
All religions, except maybe Jainism, are bad religions. Fuck spooky, un-evolved bullshit.
Islam certainly has its flaws. Extra restrictions for women and a pedophile as a prophet, for example.
I mean, christianity isn’t really better in that regard. Traditional christian beliefs for women rights are pretty shit and Mary was like 13 when she had Jesus.
All religion is shit. They just try to convince you that their specific blend of shit is the one that will get you an eternal reward.
I despise Christianity too, but in Islam modern women have it way tougher now.
That’s because there are several Islamic theocracies left but no Christian theocracies left.
There’s Vatican.
I guess youa are technically correct
in Islam modern women have it way tougher now.
Depends on which islamic country you’re in and which specific blend of islamic thought you follow. Same as christians. Compare the wahabbis to the southern baptists. Or you can compare liberal christianity to liberal islam.
Just like the world itself most denominations don’t just follow one train of thought. There are many different beliefs and tenets depending on how you interpret your chosen fairy tale.
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the same Jesus Christ who commanded us to love our neighbors and welcome the strangers from other lands?
Same guy, the one that washed the feet of whores and flipped tables of money changers
that guy is gonna pissed
I can’t imagine he’d be happy
I’m not “Christian” but I grew up Catholic and fully believe that the guy they called Jesus was a good and upstanding guy. When I comes down to it, yeah dude was right on and I would follow Him. Not the Pope. Not Paul, who was the author of Jesus. Not the other people who claim to speak for Him.
I think that original Jesus was such a good guy, none of the modern word would be acceptable. His followers have to answer for this.
“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,” - Jesus, according to Luke 6:27
“If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” - Jesus, according to Matthew 5:39
Only a fucking moron would think the crusades ushered in westernism. The crusades were generally considered to be a failure because, guess what, the crusaders lost. They didn’t establish european control in jerusalem. They were kicked out and beaten back numerous times.
The Crusades were mostly rulers going “what the fuck do I do with all these knights and unlabded nobles we’ve created”
In a round about way they sorta did modernize western culture but not in a way that Hegseth would like. Before the crusades the most influential philosopher in the Roman Empire was St Augustine of Hippo and, basically, what he had done is to merge Platonic philosophy into Catholic theology. So the western world was underpinning it’s reasoning on Plato. The Muslim populations, and especially the Moors in northern Africa, had preserved and in many ways embraced Aristotelian philosophy. Aristotelian philosophy is just plain better. Aristotle made far less assumptions and assertions and he focused on gaining information from the natural world in a much greater way. As a result the Muslim peoples that the west crusaded against were culturally and scientifically more advanced. They treated their prisoners better and could treat wounds that the crusaders believed were fatal. As a result crusaders returned from their crusades with stories of what they had experienced and writings from Muslim scholars and snipits of writings from Aristotle and his students.
Thomas Aquinas gathered those writings and stories and begin something of a revolution of thinking in the western world. His major contribution was merging Aristotelian philosophy into Catholic theology. As his influence grew and more Catholic thinkers adopted Aristotelian concepts it culminating in Martin Luther a couple hundred years later. So, they didn’t exactly usher in westernism but they were crucial to the western Renaissance and to the development of western liberalism. The real lesson is that the more western society has moved away from conservative ideas and especially conservative religion and the more western civilization has embraced science and diverse and secular thought the freer, fairer, and more prosperous it has become. Embracing the crusades is pushing us back toward the dark ages, the most important accomplishment of the crusades was pushing the Roman Empire, or at least a significant portion of it’s population, into a philosophical position where they realized that the crusades weren’t justified to begin with.
If there’s one thing that Jesus really stressed as virtuous, it was war and murder.
