The Crusades weren't Christian. Christianity teaches salvation by faith, not by going on crusades. The Inquisition went after protestants and Bibles. They burnt Bibles. Salem witch trials were actually witches burning Christians.
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Witches burnt christians in Salem? You better notify the world; they got their history wrong all this time.
Do you know what the crusades actually were? When and how they started? What instigated it all?
I'm sorry. Those were unfair questions to ask someone with such limited brain function.
Some facts that appear to have escaped your particularly narrow mind:
The crusades were uttely christian. They had nothing to do with salvation - that was a side issue. They were to recover the (so called) Holy Land from the Muslims. They started in the 1000s. The last of the lands was lost in the late 1100s ot thereabouts.
The Inquisition was founded considerably later in the late 1200s.
Protestantism wasn't around until the 1500s.
Nowbody was burnt at Salem. They were hanged. (Not hung, which is another matter!). And it was supposed witches by Christians.
Now, since you show such ignorance, decency and shame demand that you hide your head and never again darken the door of this hallowed board.
If I were your teacher, I would bash your stupid head off the desk and hope that the effusion of brain matter might improve you intelligence. Alas, I do not have that capacity at this time.
NOBODY WAS BURNT IN THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS.
19 people were hanged. One was pressed to death. And a few died in jail. Nobody was fucking BURNED.
And if they were, it would've been Christians doing it. I don't care if you want to write off Christians who commit atrocities as not true Christians or whatever. They called THEMSELVES Christian, so we're going to associate them with the religion.
Well according to the Fundie version, the crusades and inquisition weren't done by Christians because Catholics aren't Christian. And technically nobody was burned to death in Salem. So........
Ah fuck, VortexDelta is still an idiot.
Your that Christian that cherry picks the love and understanding by bouncing through the Bible and selecting the nice stuff. Read your damn book. Really read it.
"Salem witch trials were actually witches burning Christians" Holy fuckin' deluded
Reformation hadn't happened yet. Protestants did not exist.
Bibles were not burnt, Jews were burnt, heretics were burnt, and Muslims were burnt.
The ashes of the dead should reassemble themselves and smack the shit out of you.
Next thing you'll say is that on 9/11, demented Americand hijacked 4 civilian planes, smashed three of them into Saudi government buildings and caused two magnificent towers in Medina to crumble to dust.
No True Scotsman.
Do my ears deceive me or do I hear the sound of Moving Goalposts rustling in the bushes?
Salem witch trials were actually witches burning Christians.
Then it's a shame the witches didn't put more effort into it all. Frankly I'd rather live with the witches than with you Christians. At least the witches revere life and don't participate in Human sacrifices.
Make up history a lot there Vortex? Although on some ways you are correct about the crusades(altough not the way you think). The first crusade killed more Jews, Eastern orthodox, and coptic christians than muslims. Later crusades went against carthars and aryan christians in France. One crusade destroyed chrisitan Constantinople and never made it to the mideast. The inquisition went against anyone that wasn't there kind of CONSERVATIVE Christian(in other words fundies going after moderate christians), and the Salem witch trials were uber-christians going after other christians for greed and politics under the guise of self-righteousness.
“In the second world war, Poland Attacked Germany. In retaliation, Germany attacked the United Kingdom. Six million Jews gassed a few nazis, then Israel turned into Palestine.”
I think many here are missing his first point. I believe that he's arguing that the crusaders cloaked themselves in a mantle of holyness while pursuing secular ends (land in the Middle East) through secular means.(war)
Of course the flip side is true: if we're not to hold Christianity responsible for the crusades, we can hardly hold Darwin responsible for the eugenics movement that used the concept of "survival of the fittest," as a justification to pursue their own racist agenda.
The Inquisition went after almost anybody. They were neither just nor selective. Sola fides did not become mainstream belief until Luther -- neither the Catholic Church nor the Orthodox Church ever preached it. (Funny how Jesus seemed to think rather highly of works of charity, but sola fides trashes that. I wonder how many fundies think the story of the Good Samaritan was a forgery.)
As for the Salem Witch Trial comment... if Yahweh ever bothers to reimplement awards, I suggest a "Serdar Argic" award.
Yes, I'm sure that explains how the rowdy Christian army accidentally(?) destroyed one of their own cities because they were 'bored' or something.
Revisionist History Nthed.
Were the Crusaders seeking the Holy Grail? Witch hunts. The Spanish Inquisition. We got ourselves a Monty Python hat trick here. How do you know she's a witch? By her nice red uniform, and the comfy chair, and the soft pillow. Three signs of a witch!
wow, the inquisition burnt bibles, and witches burned Christians. I never knew, thanks for clearing that up, I trust you have send this in to all the history book publishers, they need to do some serious revisions.
I really like how some of the loudest conservafundies of today simultaneously claim to have supported the civil rights movement while also screaming out about the injustice of making sure those civil rights are enforced by law, or that they can be applied to everyone equally.
In a century or so, they'll be claiming they supported the gay rights movement while liberals stood in their way.
My, my, historical revisionism is fun, ain't it?
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