Spiffy Spazz
Nasuko-San
CH1Y0
What's offensive about it? They're far too long dead to be offended.
You're kidding me, right? The Muslims are one of the worlds MAJOR FRIGGIN RELIGIONS. You're just an ignorant American, aren't you?
Becuase every American is ignorant, right?
He's American btw. But He needs to STFU about it and preferably not post in threads that involves the potential to "offend" him.
Seriously Nas. That was extremely uncouth of you and I don't like you doing that.
The Catholic church itself in the Crusades was very barbarous of their treatment to the Muslims (hell I read they attacked Jerusalem and killed everyone inside of it, Man woman child, elderly, muslim, jew, and yes, even Catholics.) And it's been recorded that the Muslim rule of Jerusalem was extremely peacful and even tolerant. I'll be honest I think the Church was in the wrong. But at the same time Catholicism was all that people had back then, a time in Europe when people were illiterate, poor, and didn't leave their village for the whole of their lives , the hope of absolute salvation by killing heretics and infidels while seeing more of the world was certainly would seem appealing.
I"ll give Catholicism this much. When you're poor, it gets you through a hell of a lot. Especially in your parish. When faith is almost all that you have, then it can make you the most devout believer after all your suffering has begun to end and things start to turn up.
I, personally, just think that orginized religion isn't right for me totally. I don't like praying in groups. I don't believe that the Catholic God is any different than the Muslim God or anything. I've read too much on theology to think otherwise that the world's religions, from the begining of time, have you, don't have distinct similar traces.
That's why I pray by myself, with my Rosary, praying the way I was taught to pray because it feels very reeassuring.
Just a thought I suppose.
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