Known for his improvised & volatile performances, #Trump is now ending many of his rallies w/ churchlike ritual & casting his prosecutions as persecution.
Taking essential #healthcare away from needy children on #Easter is incredibly fucked up. These #Republicans continue to claim exclusive ownership of #Christianity while behaving in a way that would have infuriated their #messiah. They're literally acting directly contrary to the foundational teachings of the man they claim to revere and follow.
If #Jesus came back today, #JamesComer and #GymJordan would subpoena him, and have him before their Congressional #impeachment committee tomorrow. The notion that they'd accept and embrace him is too absurd to even contemplate. Jesus, as described in their very own official #TrumpBible, is an unquestionable #liberal whose teachings are directly contrary to their professed beliefs. Jesus just doesn't understand #Christianity the way the #Republicans do.
Easter is a Christian holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Traditions and rituals for the holiday are vary widely across the planet. USA Today provides these key facts about the holiday, including why many people use eggs as part of the celebration. https://flip.it/lk5x7e #Culture#Easter#Holidays#Christianity
This is not antisemitism, this is just an annual celebration of the proud Spanish tradition of murdering Jews! I’m surprised they haven’t applied for World Heritage status like the Carnival of Aalst.
“It’s an expression here,” Margarita Torres Sevilla, a professor of medieval history at the University of León, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “For example, you tell me, ‘Have a drink with me? Okay, let’s go kill Jews.’ Another typical sentence of Holy Week is, ‘How many Jews have you killed? Three, four, five [limonadas]? Oh, you have killed a lot.’” #Antisemitism#Jews#Easter#Christianity#Spain
People who are a part of cults, like the Jehovah's Witnesses, are not necessarily stupid, they're just human, and as such are emotional creatures who are subject to emotional manipulation, like the kinds discussed in this video. #atheism#atheist#christianity#religion#skepticism
Limiting the view to the relatively short time of the #Crusades and the conquest of the Americas by Europeans is a very limited view.
In the first centuries after the death of Christ, Christianity spread throughout the "known world" of the #RomanEmpire peacefully, in fact the members of the sect often being persecuted by the authorities.
In fact, the picture you show of a #crusader has a reason. The military...
...expansionism of islam and the conquest of the #HolyLand, which had belonged to the #Roman and then its heir, the #ByzantineEmpire, by invading #Arab forces, expanding throughout the #Mediterranean and beyond.
So, the crusader picture does not really support your story.
What you are saying would be true for large parts of #LatinAmerica, though.
...as a way to control the subjects of a ruling elite is something that has been done throughout human history and is certainly not limited to the Christian and Islamic faith.
It might despicable from a moral point of view, but it is a very powerful tool from a strategic point of view and will therefore continue to be (ab)used in the politics of power.
Mary of Egypt reportedly converted to Christianity during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. One of the earliest pilgrim accounts of Jerusalem is that left behind by a Roman woman named Egeria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_(pilgrim)
As #Christianity became progressively more mainstream, it also became more patriarchal, so women had less influence in Christianity in 1000-1500 than in 1-500.
The Seljuk #Turks intermarried with the #Byzantine imperial family, and because of their polygamy, the sultans' harems often became centers of #Christianity, which provided patronage and influence for church leaders. "Harem Christianity," as one scholar termed it, remains an important yet poorly understood component of women's history.
A later #Byzantine princess was married to Ozbek Khan of the Golden Horde (in what is today Russia). The Moroccan Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta reports her name as Bayalun, but what her Greek name was is lost. Her husband being Muslim, she appeared as a lackluster Muslim in the Mongol imperial camp, but reverted to #Christianity when she returned to Constantinople to give birth to their child in the 1330s.