#christendom

[illustratus]

A view of the interior of Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome by Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg

[vox-anglosphere]

Bath Abbey - Somerset

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Vicente López y Portaña (Spanish, 1772-1850) San Pedro liberado por el ángel, ca.1791-92 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

[teenageascetic]

“Everything will be very simple and easy if you decide to do it unto God, for God’s sake, and to the glory of God. Everything in life and in the soul will immediately come together.”

-Father Ioann Krestiankin.

[eternal-echoes]

[sunder-the-gold]

That addition you made... I had no idea that was the reason the Europeans even sailed west to the Americas, never once in any level of my academic life I ever got told the spread of islam was to blame. Then again, they also did not tell me the truth about the crusades, so that's just par for the course at this point. Still, it's interesting to think how the average leftist speaks so much in favor of the culture who was responsible for what they would consider the darkest centuries of history, not to mention the continuing of slave trade to this day among other violations of human rights. The Israel-Gaza conflict is really a simple symptom of a larger disease of historical illiteracy and indocrination, huh?

I only learned recently, myself.

Overly Sarcastic Productions are actual history nerds and Blue in particular is a major buff of Roman Imperial history, but he loves to trash on the Crusades, and he spoke glowingly of the Iberian peninsula when the caliphate controlled it.

He never talks about why Moroccans speak Arabic. What happened to the Zoastranians of Persia. The Barbary Pirates. The centuries of attempts to take Constantinople before Christianity ever mounted one attempt to retake Jerusalem. The caliphate’s slave trade that continues in Muslim countries to this day.

None of this whitewashing is driven by love for Islam. It started in earlier generations with a hatred of Christianity and it is carried forward by American guilt for meddling in the Middle East.

It is suicidal penance for overblown crimes. (For actions that only Christians and their descendants would even consider labeling as crimes.)

Blue doesn’t hate Christianity, but he cannot accept that Islam is explicitly a religion of conquest and enslavement. Even with the historical facts staring him in the face.

So he has to omit Jihad and gloss over the infidel-tax. He cannot admit that the Arabic golden age was built on the conquest and piracy that started the European dark age, and that the Arabic dark age began when the Europeans regrouped and America arrived to fight the pirates.

Christendom never started this fight. Islam did.

[theinwardlight]

Had the life of Christ, and the nature of Christianity, been known and lived in by all that profess the name [of Christian], Christendom would have been as a fruitful field, and as a pleasant garden enclosed, and as a vineyard walled about, full of trees of righteousness and plants of God’s own right hand planting. And the tree of life would have flourished among them in the midst thereof, and the leaves of the same would have healed the nations round about. And it would have been as a city set upon a hill, which cannot be hid; and as a lamp that burns, being fed with sweet oil; and as a glorious light that shines: and many would have fled unto it, as unto a city of refuge, and have walked in the light thereof, and have seen and beheld their good works, and have glorified their Father which is in heaven. And they would have laid down as a flock of harmless lambs together […], where no destroyer is nor none can make afraid.

William Shewen, The True Christian's Faith & Experience, 1680s

[lounesdarbois]