[ SECRET POST #2533 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2533 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Do Muslims find "O Come O Come Emmanuel" offensive?

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect that the application of "captive Israel" to present times is less political and more religious - a hope for the second coming and the Kingdom of God in general terms to liberate believing Christians from the cruelty of life etc etc, rather than a plea for the liberation of the Holy Land. I think this is pretty clear from looking at the rest of the text of the thing.

It would also be pretty odd to invoke Jesus' coming to liberate a specific terrestrial territory, in a lot of ways. It would be one thing to petition him, but the hymn is much more millenarian than that. I don't think it ultimately makes sense as a Crusades thing.

Re: Do Muslims find "O Come O Come Emmanuel" offensive?

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC the Crusades were pretty millenarian--I don't think you can tease out the pious motives from the cynical motives of political aggrandizement quite that easily when you're talking about medieval people.