Christianity

@salmon_rushdie said in #50:
> Who did it better? The christians in the crusades?
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> Or the muslim jihads?

Well Christians wanted to keep Islam out of Europe and the Moslems wanted to kill?everyone who wasnt a moslem. So, while Christians succeeded for a while. Both failed.

FridaGarciaKMS said in #1: "So I'm Christian, but my parents aren't. I want to know how to embrace God without a Bible."

Start with a study of "Intelligent Design." One can find good information at the web page of the "Discovery Institute."

nothing can "design" the breathtaking phenomenon of life on a planet, amidst the dark & cold & airless cosmos, more "intelligently" than the evolution of life

you don't want to deny God having made this possible

@salmon_rushdie said in #50:
> Who did it better? The christians in the crusades?
>
> Or the muslim jihads?
I must clear what "Jihad" means.
Jihad جهاد means struggle, fight, struggle [in life to dismiss the pleasures of this life and to win higher rewards in the آخرة].
It's not just fighting against an oppressor, or conquering a land, it's stuff like stopping smoking, avoiding sinning, etc.

The more accurate thing is "Muslim futuhats فتوحات" or "Muslim conquests".

@WassimBerbar said in #54:
> I must clear what "Jihad" means.
> Jihad جهاد means struggle, fight, struggle [in life to dismiss the pleasures of this life and to win higher rewards in the آخرة].
> It's not just fighting against an oppressor, or conquering a land, it's stuff like stopping smoking, avoiding sinning, etc.
>
> The more accurate thing is "Muslim futuhats فتوحات" or "Muslim conquests".
I'm aware- I was just going contextually

Crusade is actually almost an exact synonym of jihad

1. ? ? ?

2. "crusade" = not smoke, not sin?

3. "almost exact" is wrong in itself.

4. whatfor copy a whole text from right above?!

5. makes it all in all = minus 4 out of 4. that in turn equals ...

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@DuMussDieUhrDruecken said in #56:
> 1. ? ? ?
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> 2. "crusade" = not smoke, not sin?
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> 3. "almost exact" is wrong in itself.
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> 4. whatfor copy a whole text from right above?!
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> 5. makes it all in all = minus 4 out of 4. that in turn equals ...
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> 0
Yeah I don't get it either, "Crusade" from the dictionary is "each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to the Holy Land in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries".
I don't see how this goes inside forbidding evil, or how it's similar to jihad.

@verylate said in #40:
> holy llamas? (I'd hesitate to eat a holy Lama)

LOL

No way this started a war.

lol
welcome back in your own thread