How is that any different from when Charlemagne and Boleslaw the Brave used religion as a face for other activities that included them taking over whole peoples ans "converting" them to Christianity by force? Christiniaty is not unlike Islam in its wake of bigotry and violence: did those three little teensy Crusades teach everyone nothing? Was what Hernan Cortez did really about religion? The problem is never the spiritual beliefs in and of themselves but how these beliefs are bent and used by narcissitic, power-hungry and delusional people as a cover for their own criminal activities. Sometimes they can't see it themselves because looking at themselves in the mirror and seeing what they truly are would be too painful.
When someone criticizes another religion, it's sometimes not the religion but the society in which this religion flourished that is the problem. And those societal ideologies and beliefs will be reflected in the religion in and of itself. But let's face it. Institutionalised religion has always been a means to an end. In 1302, the powerful Pope Boniface VIII issued a papal bull titled "Unum Sanctam". What did this marvellous bull decree? That as the extension of St. Peter on Earth and as the head of God's only "true" church, the Pope was above all Earthly laws and had the right to rule over all monarchs on Earth. Just let that sink in. What does all this tell you? Was religion really about salvation or something else?
Oh, come on! Yes, the First Crusade was a result of the Council of Clermont in November 1095: Alexius Komnenos' empire (Byzantium) was under attack from the Turks and he begged the most powerful man in Latin Christendom for military help (the Pope). Pope Urban II thus held the Council of Clermont and urged "his subjects" to fight for Christianity and Christians in Byzantium. By 1098 they had taken over Jerusalem ("Christian") and even established a kingdom there.
If you ever read the texts about the First Crusade I guarantee you will feel like puking. I guarantee it. In Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade, there's a part where a Catholic priest that is on Crusade is surprised by Turks. What happens? They cut off his head. And how lucky that priest is! Oh what fortunate martyrdom! I want to be that priest and go to heaven! Yes! Chop MY head off, Turks!
Charles: From the Germanic name Karl, which was derived from a Germanic word meaning "man". However, an alternative theory states that it is derived from the common Germanic elementhari meaning "army, warrior".
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How is that any different from when Charlemagne and Boleslaw the Brave used religion as a face for other activities that included them taking over whole peoples ans "converting" them to Christianity by force? Christiniaty is not unlike Islam in its wake of bigotry and violence: did those three little teensy Crusades teach everyone nothing? Was what Hernan Cortez did really about religion? The problem is never the spiritual beliefs in and of themselves but how these beliefs are bent and used by narcissitic, power-hungry and delusional people as a cover for their own criminal activities. Sometimes they can't see it themselves because looking at themselves in the mirror and seeing what they truly are would be too painful.
But let's face it. Institutionalised religion has always been a means to an end. In 1302, the powerful Pope Boniface VIII issued a papal bull titled "Unum Sanctam". What did this marvellous bull decree? That as the extension of St. Peter on Earth and as the head of God's only "true" church, the Pope was above all Earthly laws and had the right to rule over all monarchs on Earth. Just let that sink in. What does all this tell you? Was religion really about salvation or something else?
You may groan at exploding puns but I can't live (anagram of veil) without going mua ha ha ha ha med.
Veiling evil is mega vile and no way to live.
The story is very similar to Superman's, but an evil version.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZAs9LjJAHU
http://images.memes.com/meme/203518
It's such bullshit! People are so full of it!
Charles: From the Germanic name Karl,
which was derived from a Germanic word meaning "man". However, an
alternative theory states that it is derived from the common Germanic element hari meaning "army, warrior".