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fandomsecrets2008-08-20 05:26 pm
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[ SECRET POST #593 ]
⌈ Secret Post #593 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 215 secrets from Secret Submission Post #085.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: 187
(Anonymous) 2008-08-20 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)Now, the Black Death is certainly a topic worth talking about if we want to talk about Christian evils. Such as ignorant townspeople massacring Jews because they believed that the Jews caused the plague (and why not? The Jews used different water supplies and maintained more hygeinic practises, thus they did not get sick as often as the Christians). That, and it was also a way of revolting against a monarchy that protected the Jews to the extent of disfavouring their own, Christian subjects. There was no go ahead from the Church, the Church was too busy struggling to stay on it's feet. Most of the clergy were dying because they were taking care of the sick, and the people replacing them weren't as well trained in matters of the Church, just in matters of alleviating suffering.
In fact, a lot of the evils you speak of are what happens when you have a large group of ignorant people and some sort of calamity that the people in charge can't control. Plague, and the Church can't stop it? Destroy people who are different, because clearly it's their fault. Crops won't grow or children are dying of illnesses? Must be a witch.
All else fails, just be a radically different minority that has a lot of power, or a radically different minority who feels that the majority is all a bunch of Devil worshippers.
It's not the religion, it's the people.
Oh, and the Crusades weren't really about religion at all. Just wealthy noblemen and royalty seeking to fatten their coffers.
Re: 187
(Anonymous) 2008-08-20 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)Islam, on the other hand, is all about conquest this, and jihad that, and stone this (usually a woman), and subjugate that (usually infidels). Basically what I'm getting at is: When people actually follow Christian precepts to the letter, divinely inspired or not (I lean towards the 'not'), they generally aren't all that violent. When a Muslim actually follows Islamic precepts to the letter...well, you get Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
The fundamental difference between Crusaders and Suicide bombers is that the foot soldiers of the former were generally illiterate, and couldn't read their own Bible. But in the case of the latter, they have usually memorized entire passages from the Koran.
Re: 187
But I dispute that it was all about money. There were clearly people who believed in what they were doing.