WHY THE CRUSADES? DEFENSE?
Posted 19 February 2015 - 01:20 AM
WHY THE CRUSADES? DEFENSE?
Posted 20 February 2015 - 08:21 AM
Is there evidence for Sauron? Why there is no Sauron thread on LongeCity?
Posted 20 February 2015 - 07:53 PM
Why don't you start one?
Posted 25 February 2015 - 08:28 PM
Here are more Crusade maps.
Posted 10 March 2015 - 09:56 AM
WHY THE CRUSADES? DEFENSE?
Edited by addx, 10 March 2015 - 09:58 AM.
Posted 10 March 2015 - 09:28 PM
WHY THE CRUSADES? DEFENSE?
How did, say, Richard the Lionheart defend Britain by invading, plundering and commencing massacres on the other side of the known world?
I know you entirely like to miss the point but the subject is Islam and the crusades. Richard the Lionhearted did not start attacking the West. Islam did and committed the greatest genocide in the history of the world.
Posted 11 March 2015 - 09:51 AM
I know you entirely like to miss the point but the subject is Islam and the crusades.WHY THE CRUSADES? DEFENSE?
How did, say, Richard the Lionheart defend Britain by invading, plundering and commencing massacres on the other side of the known world?
Richard the Lionhearted did not start attacking the West.
Islam did and committed the greatest genocide in the history of the world.
Edited by addx, 11 March 2015 - 10:02 AM.
Posted 11 March 2015 - 08:53 PM
The West and East were attacked first by Islam. All the countries we now think are Moslem were once, before Islam, solidly Christian, Jewish, Animist, Zoroaster, Buddhist and Hindu. They are all largely gone suffering the fate of other religious people we see today. Nothing has changed and the proof is still going on. it has been the largest genocide in human history. Are you Ignorant of this or like most westerners your history starts in Europe? What were the Muslims doing in France when they were stopped? How did they get Jerusalem? I know according to you, Richard the Lionhearted did it.
Do you still have the Blue Mosque on your facebook page?
Posted 12 March 2015 - 07:57 AM
The West and East were attacked first by Islam. All the countries we now think are Moslem were once, before Islam, solidly Christian, Jewish, Animist, Zoroaster, Buddhist and Hindu. They are all largely gone suffering the fate of other religious people we see today.
Nothing has changed and the proof is still going on. it has been the largest genocide in human history.
Are you Ignorant of this or like most westerners your history starts in Europe? What were the Muslims doing in France when they were stopped?
How did they get Jerusalem?
According to the Bible, the Israelite history of the city began in c. 1000 BCE, with King David's sack of Jerusalem, following which Jerusalem became the City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel.
I know according to you, Richard the Lionhearted did it.
Do you still have the Blue Mosque on your facebook page?
Edited by addx, 12 March 2015 - 08:27 AM.
Posted 12 March 2015 - 10:11 PM
Sorry but in Christian areas there are still other religions. Islam has largely wiped out other religions. Don't play like they are the same because the facts are overwhelmingly against you. Richard the lionhearted was during the third Crusade long after Islam attacked others in every direction.
Posted 13 March 2015 - 10:25 AM
Sorry but in Christian areas there are still other religions.
Islam has largely wiped out other religions.
Don't play like they are the same because the facts are overwhelmingly against you. Richard the lionhearted was during the third Crusade long after Islam attacked others in every direction.
Edited by addx, 13 March 2015 - 10:26 AM.
Posted 13 March 2015 - 01:24 PM
These posts are getting tired. Why make all of these threads when there could just be the one?
It's a divide and conquer.
Atheism is compared to theism and found equal in the sense that they are both "beleif systems" by which we live. This "equalization" is then used to make atheism less scientific and theism more scientific, making them equally scientific. After that all bets are off since theism is in reality completely fictional, but this logical stunt fallacy makes theism scientific. So, fiction becomes science by this strike of a logic fallacy and shadowhawk gains his ground to spew fiction as fact declaring that the universe must have a border and outside the border must be God and that all he said is science, not fiction or religion.
On the other hand, religions of Christianity and Islam are not emphasized to be equal in the sense of being "beleif systems" as that is obvious to all. So, the argument he used to "drag" atheism down to the level of religions is skipped over in the other threads as it is taken for granted. Noone should notice it. Since atheism is discussed in another thread.
But in fact, if we apply the same principle that he used to "devalue" atheism we can only conclude that all such "beleif systems" are equal in purpose, we use them to guide ourselves. This conclusion is in fact true but is not what he's after. He needs atheism devalued, Christianity uphieved to be the only truth and Islam "allowed in spite of moral transgressions" because christians are so forgiving.
So the islam thread discusses islam transgressions while the same thing is deemed discussion derailing and off topic in the christianity thread. The islam thread talks about islam discriminating other religions. In the christianity thread posts about christians burning non-christians at the stake, inventing slavery etc is declared to be off topic and discussion derailing or red herring. Posts about Islam actually allowing Christianity while at the same time Christians burned all non christians and the period laster for centuries are also deemed off topic.
So, that's why he needs separate threads. He can not possibly add up all his argumentation into a coherent system that does not contradict itself. So he divides his mind and argumentation to three distinct "battle fields" and he has a ready "magic the gathering deck" for "fighting" each one. It is in fact "discussion derailing" to stray from his magic the gathering deck. All this seems to be a result of him needing attention and validation for his existence. So much vigour into proving something that needs no proof, has no proof by design and is in fact destroyed by proof (proof renders faith into knowledge and thus removes the subjective effect that faith has on people) shows his deep cognitive dissonance.
Damn. Well said. That's all I really have to add lol.
Posted 13 March 2015 - 10:02 PM
Christianity has been far more tolerant than Islam and that is not because of secularism which has suppressed religion in every great secular county. Democracy has its roots in the Christian West and is promoted by Christians. America is but one example of it. Find open freedom of religion in Islam lands. Proof is in the pudding. Where did all the other religions go? No, Christianity is not remotely close to Islam. You remember how Mohammad died and why don’t you?
Islam did not grow anyway like Christianity. Islam grew by military conquest while Christianity
is a religion of slaves and grew from the bottom up..
To days Muslims are what they are because they have followed the example of Mohammad. By the way you have not denied Islam has killed more people in History than any other group by far and continues to do so. This is nothing new. I have produced evidence while you simply wish to change focus by calling others names. Suppose you were correct about Christianity and you are not, that does not make Islam right nor my points wrong.. This is about Islam.
Posted 13 March 2015 - 10:05 PM
bigbadwoof: "Damn. Well said. That's all I really have to add lol."
You have said nothing.
Posted 13 March 2015 - 11:43 PM
Christianity has been far more tolerant than Islam and that is not because of secularism which has suppressed religion in every great secular county. Democracy has its roots in the Christian West and is promoted by Christians. America is but one example of it. Find open freedom of religion in Islam lands. Proof is in the pudding. Where did all the other religions go? No, Christianity is not remotely close to Islam. You remember how Mohammad died and why don’t you?
Islam did not grow anyway like Christianity. Islam grew by military conquest while Christianity
is a religion of slaves and grew from the bottom up..
To days Muslims are what they are because they have followed the example of Mohammad. By the way you have not denied Islam has killed more people in History than any other group by far and continues to do so. This is nothing new. I have produced evidence while you simply wish to change focus by calling others names. Suppose you were correct about Christianity and you are not, that does not make Islam right nor my points wrong.. This is about Islam.
Yes I have denied it, it's a ridiculous claim. The christian world has caused more violent deaths than islamic by a factor of 10, even though the populations are and were roughly equal.
And you can't claim on a thread that islam killed more people in history than any other group and then not allow me to contradict it saying the thread is about islam and you don't want to hear how christians killed more. Are you serious????
http://en.wikipedia....s_by_death_toll
Secular states finally ended the hegemony of the church, there's no "proof in the pudding". Stop rewriting history with, what it seems you think is, "truthfully sounding rhetorics".
I've already listed proof that ottoman turk empire allowed christianity for 7 centuries, something that christians did not return as a favor. Furthermore egypt I know has a substanstial christian populations (in Alexandria) and others as well...P.S. I've been there as well, and have facebook pages :p
Turkey today is a completely secular state even though majority of the population is islamic... in fact I'm not really aware of any islamic state actually prohibiting christians except the current ISIL terrorist state.
Edited by addx, 14 March 2015 - 12:33 AM.
Posted 14 March 2015 - 01:14 AM
First the source you quoted for your stats. is highly suspect. Here is what it says.
"This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.
This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2014) This article needs attention from an expert on the subject. (April 2014) This article is incomplete. (November 2014)This article is outdated. (November 2014)"
Second, these are all modern wars and you are attempting to say they are Christian. WWII, yep it was Christian.
In fact you didn't source any Christian war. I can tell you no serious historian would buy it.
Everything I have talked about comes from the birth of Islam to the Crusades. Not modern wars as you have done and wars when it was Islamic armies of conquest doing the fighting. If you want stats on killing and who did it see RJ Rummel on line. Google him.
Posted 14 March 2015 - 01:02 PM
First the source you quoted for your stats. is highly suspect. Here is what it says.
"This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.
This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2014) This article needs attention from an expert on the subject. (April 2014) This article is incomplete. (November 2014)
This article is outdated. (November 2014)"
Second, these are all modern wars and you are attempting to say they are Christian. WWII, yep it was Christian.
In fact you didn't source any Christian war. I can tell you no serious historian would buy it.
Everything I have talked about comes from the birth of Islam to the Crusades. Not modern wars as you have done and wars when it was Islamic armies of conquest doing the fighting. If you want stats on killing and who did it see RJ Rummel on line. Google him.
Edited by addx, 14 March 2015 - 01:11 PM.
Posted 14 March 2015 - 08:05 PM
Insane. You blame Christians for all modern wars based upon your flawed list. The wars I was talking about and listed them, were Islam practicing religious wars. I listed them by name and Graphically. Hundreds of Millions of people are missing in these Islamic lands. Again for the last time, how did Mohammed die and what does it have to do with what we are talking about?
Posted 15 March 2015 - 10:09 AM
Insane. You blame Christians for all modern wars based upon your flawed list. The wars I was talking about and listed them, were Islam practicing religious wars. I listed them by name and Graphically. Hundreds of Millions of people are missing in these Islamic lands. Again for the last time, how did Mohammed die and what does it have to do with what we are talking about?
Whom should I blame?
Christianity seems to be regarded as the most pacifying religion and yet christians caused so much wars between themselves that their death toll is 10 times larger than that of Islam.
Explain that. You tried to make the case that Christianity is a truer religion than Islam, because it has 20% more followers.
Here's another perspective. Christianity is not a truer religion because its followers caused at least 1000% more killing than followers of Islam.
This is what we're talking about. You repeatedly making lame ass prejudiced statements, discriminating other peoples faith while pretending to be some uberpolite person.
Posted 16 March 2015 - 09:38 PM
You might as well blame Islam unless like Christianity they had nothing to do with these wars. What nonsense and off topic.
Many people are confused by jihad. If Islam is a religion of peace, why is there a persistent problem of radicalism in the Muslim world? If Islam is the problem, why are there so many peaceful Muslims? In this video, David Wood explains that jihad isn't the product of a single factor, but of three factors: belief, knowledge, and obedience. These three factors come together in what we'll call The Jihad Triangle. Here is a video on it.
Posted 25 March 2015 - 08:07 AM
You might as well blame Islam unless like Christianity they had nothing to do with these wars. What nonsense and off topic.
Many people are confused by jihad. If Islam is a religion of peace, why is there a persistent problem of radicalism in the Muslim world?
Posted 25 March 2015 - 08:23 PM
I am sorry you are so ignorant of the history of Islam. What is going on today is nothing new nor is its danger to the entire non-Islamic world. If they did not hate each other so, we would all either be Islamic or dead.
Posted 26 March 2015 - 03:41 AM
Posted 26 March 2015 - 08:48 AM
We keep forgetting the USA, and all western constitution based federal republics, base their modern understanding of freedom as inalienable rights given to us by our creator as stated in the American declaration of independence and established in the constitution.
Jesus gave us an example of this when he sent out the apostles to convert the nation's to his truth, but said if they reject you dust their dirt off your sandals and walk away, and let them believe what they want. By his example our civil laws were initially established on Christian truth, but the freedom to disagree in a civil way is allowed.
Atheist nations believe rights are given by the government and can be taken away at any time by the ruling class. Disagreement is not allowed and civil law is not based on Christian truth but rather secular opinion.
Muslim nations base their laws on the truth according to Mohammad. He said conquer the nation's and convert them to islam. If they don't convert punish them by taxes or beheadings.
Some modern Muslims have incorporated christian principles of freedom into their lives and partially into their governments just like modern western nations. Some like Isis are remaining true to Mohammad and continue conquering and killing.
No nation based on Muslim or atheist principles allows Christians the freedom of expression that is given to atheists or Muslims in western nations based on Christian principles.
It would be nice if christian freedom was insured and protected everywhere.
Edited by addx, 26 March 2015 - 09:19 AM.
Posted 26 March 2015 - 11:31 PM
The US like any other country is not perfect but unlike most other countries they have not colonized those whom they vanquished and in most cases restored the people with new Government and financial aid. Europe and Japan come to mind. There has never been such a city on the hill. Islam stands in sharp contrast. Secularists did not frame America, Christians did. Their (secularists) record has not been good when in power. Tell me the names of the great secularists you claim led mankind into a wonderful world such as we have now.
The Church never burned any atheist. What nonsense. While there have been excommunications for various reasons, no Catholic Bishop ever burned a woman at the stake. You need to study the witch trials and who and where witches were burned. It was at its peak in the non Christian part of Europe and there were not that many. Much of this is false accusations made against the Roman Church are by other Christians. We have not always been kind to each other. I could give you a whole list of sources but I suspect your interest is bigotry not truth.
Again, all the Buddhists in Afghanistan are gone as are the Hindus in Pakistan. The Zoroaster are gone as are the animists. So also are the Christians and Jews whose lands were everywhere now Islamic. Dead, raped, enslaved, taxed, oppressed, and many other atrocities have been the norm. The treatment of non Muslims is clearly spelled out in the Islamic writings. Shall I tell the story of the Janissary and where they came from. You might try to kid the uninformed but then you are consistent in your attack on the west and Christianity with this nonsense.
But this topic is about evidence for Islam but all you can do is attack Christianity in you defense of Islam. What is your evidence FOR Islam. How and why did Mohammed die?
Edited by shadowhawk, 26 March 2015 - 11:35 PM.
Posted 27 March 2015 - 08:17 AM
But this topic is about evidence for Islam but all you can do is attack Christianity in you defense of Islam. What is your evidence FOR Islam. How and why did Mohammed die?
Edited by addx, 27 March 2015 - 08:18 AM.
Posted 27 March 2015 - 07:04 PM
The topic is "Is there Evidence for Islam." Yes there is lots of evidence and much of it negative. You have done nothing, including this last post, but go off topic and either attack me, call names or attack Christianity and others. So either defend Islam or critique it and you will be on subject. Just read your posts in this topic for evidence of what I am saying. In the topic on Christianity you were one of those who got it stopped. Again read your posts there and all you did was call names with little or no real critique. Read your posts.
Posted 28 March 2015 - 07:22 AM
Edited by addx, 28 March 2015 - 07:24 AM.
Posted 31 March 2015 - 01:37 AM
I Never said any of this looney tune stuff. You must be smoking something. Christianity is beside the point if there is evidence for Islam. Again give us some. How and why did Mohammed die? Give us a reasoned apologetic. Second, can you find examples where Mohammed's own acts are being followed by his followers today? Can you be a Muslim and not believe in everything in the Koran?
Posted 31 March 2015 - 10:45 AM
That's because what you're doing here is insulting.
Christianity is not BETTER than Islam.
Christianity is not BETTER than Islam.
Christianity is not BETTER than Islam.
Christianity is not BETTER than Islam.
Christianity is not BETTER than Islam.
Christianity is not BETTER than Islam.
Christianity is not BETTER than Islam.
Christianity is not BETTER than Islam.
Stop making that offensive claim
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