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   GryphonSK (gryphonsk@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 17:12:00 JST GryphonSK

   If you have to spread your #religion by force, then it's not worth supporting.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 17:12:00 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • isotope239 🥸💻🇺🇦😣

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     #religion #history #Christianity #Islam

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     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...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 17:23:32 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • isotope239 🥸💻🇺🇦😣

     @GryphonSK

     @isotope239

     #religion #history #Christianity #Islam #Crusades #RomanEmpire #crusader

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     ...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.

     Apart from that, using religion...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 17:28:33 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • isotope239 🥸💻🇺🇦😣

     @GryphonSK

     @isotope239

     #religion #history #Christianity #Islam

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     ...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.

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     #Crusades #RomanEmpire #crusader #HolyLand #Roman