@TimONeill007 Missed it, my bad. Yeah, i agree, the defence of «western europe» was not the motivation, religious zeal and the defence of «christendom», specifically eastern, i Think were the driving factors.
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Jan Furuholmen
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Jan Furuholmen
@FuruholmenJan
«For vi er hans verk, skapt i Kristus Jesus til gode gjerninger, som Gud forut har lagt ferdige for at vi skulle vandre i dem.» Efeserne 2,10 YNWA❤️❤️
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@FuruholmenJan I don't leave it out, I refer to it when noting Urban's motivations. But the people I'm debunking are saying the motivation was the defence of *western Europe*. It wasn't.
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This "the Crusades were defensive and justified" stuff gets repeated endlessly by the lunkheaded "Deus Vult" bros and has been inherited from Bush conservatives from back in the Iraq War days. As history goes, it's pure junk.
Basically, it's based on the idea that medieval ...
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
By the time of the Crusades, there had already been a Muslim incursion so deep into France that the ensuing battle (Tours) was fought midway between Nantes and Paris. The Muslims owned Sicily. They owned Spain. They were deep into India. They weren't a peaceful retiring civilization happy to tend their gardens. In fact after the First Crusade, the Muslims continued to conquer, eventually taking down the Byzantines and all the Balkans. The First Crusade was an audacious and courageous strike against a force that the crusaders felt menaced all Christendom. Were they justified? That has to be determined by your own moral compass. But certainly they weren't just picking on the poor oppressed Mohammedans.
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@faelanxism @captgouda24 Couldnt you just be a teacher then? Social reproduction is a term you just made up, stop making excuses for weird fetishes. And if you are a «valuable» person, who greatly improved, wouldnt you just make sure you reared your child this way?
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@FuruholmenJan @captgouda24 One might view oneself as genetically inferior but as a nonetheless valuable person who has greatly improved their worth (and parenting abilities) through environment. In that sense, even selecting the "better genes" is a form of social reproduction of the self.
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When I have children, I do not want them to be genetically mine. Instead, I will have someone better than me be the sperm donor. My reasoning here:
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/why-my-child…
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Mind-blowing.
If you swing the US over to the same latitude in Europe, guess where it lands...
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