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  1. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    The Crusades weren’t about justice, and they weren’t about obeying the command of Jesus to his follower to go to all nations, making followers for him. Think of all the followers of Jesus throughout the history of Christianity who didn’t, don’t, and never will call what the Crusaders did...
  2. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    “1. We are undoubtedly faced every day with evil that is pointed directly at us. Satan knows how, where, and who to use to do the greatest damage to our Christian walk. Don’t be surprised. It will happen, if it hasn’t happened already.” (Chuck Jones, Living Today The Kingdom Way, p. 23) I’m...
  3. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Again, you obviously haven’t read all of my posts. One of the few positive things I can say about you is that you told me yourself that you haven’t.
  4. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    I never dreamed back then that I would ever meet someone like you.
  5. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    They are embedded in this thread. And there are posts from others embedded here, too.
  6. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Muslims killed and enslaved Christians. I owe nothing to the Crusaders; everything to God and Messiah.
  7. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    I’m reminded again of my immature high school buddies who thought it endlessly funny to say amongst ourselves: “They can kill but they can’t eat us. That wouldn’t be civilized.” Now here I am, a little over fifty years later, speaking against the uncivilized who killed and ate their enemies and...
  8. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    At this time, I think you probably always will. “The crusaders spared no one in their savagery; they murdered old and young, they raped women and girls - even nuns - in their frenzy. They also desecrated churches and plundered treasuries, and much of the city was put to the torch. In...
  9. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    https://spacezilotes.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/the-cannibalism-of-christians-in-maarra/ @Wrangler stands with the Crusaders. I stand against them. Muslims (and nonMuslims) aren’t food (unless you’re a Crusader). I shouldn’t have to say it but I do: Jesus did not command his followers to kill...
  10. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    That’s not true. You need to study Islamic history and Christian history. I documented a case of the Crusaders coming upon a city which was occupied by Muslims, Christians and Jews. They slaughtered everyone in the city - Muslims, Christians and Jews. They spared no one. No. I’ve already been...
  11. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    “From Medieval Times to the Enlightenment Throughout the Medieval Era, Christians continued to persecute Jews. When Pope Urban II called for the liberation if Jerusalem in 1095, the biblical tropes of Jews as Christ killers and devils inspired Christian crusaders to slaughter thousands of...
  12. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    “I talked to a brother the other day who was a conscientious objector in the 1960’s. I asked him why he refused to do military service. ‘Because I don’t want to kill a Christian brother. And it would be unreasonable to first run and ask an enemy soldier what he believes before you eventually...
  13. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    “You are not a follower of Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill.” Why is this not a military recruitment tool? How many followers of Jesus would enlist in the militaries of the nations in which they reside if it was?
  14. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Readers, is it the faithful and wise followers of Jesus who are teaching you to kill his brothers and sisters in war or is it the foolish and wicked who are teaching you to kill his brothers and sisters in war? Unless the foolish and wicked repent, the Messiah is going to cut them in pieces...
  15. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    You’re wrong again. I see it as something -> something that Jesus did not command his followers to do and something which the followers of Jesus should not do. *** Jesus did command his followers to pay their taxes. Jesus did command his followers to obey the governments of the world but not...
  16. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Certainly not. Which I have. I’ve attacked the Crusaders in posts where I’ve spoken about them. No reasonable person would see providing the reasons for the Crusades and not defending the Crusaders as a contradiction; they would see it as a criticism of the whole proposition. See above.
  17. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    @Wrangler lives in the United States. Know this, you followers of Jesus who live outside of the United States: he would kill you if war broke out between the United States and the nation you live in; and he would think that he was serving God for doing it. Instead of following his example...
  18. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Multiple posts. See all of my posts. Because you haven’t, you speak out of ignorance. I haven’t defended the Crusaders in any of my posts. See above.
  19. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    What are you talking about? Read your own posts. I’ve talked about the reasons for the Crusades. (So have others.) Your protestation to the contrary is groundless.
  20. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    They did do justice themselves.