J.D. Hall
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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They couldn't afford it because it was year's worth, and they confiscated their bank account and threatened to take their property.
the Ottomans didn't charge churches tax.
And so when the Ottomans were in control of the promised land for 400 years in the millet system, they didn't charge churches tax.
Israel started just a few years ago.
And so that Christians have pressure applied to them.
I mean, native believers, the ones whose churches have been there longer than Israel has been a state.
They're the ones that are facing the pressure that it's very hard to get Christians in America to care about at all.
Okay, so the answer is no.
The Muslim rulers didn't tax churches during the Ottoman period.
They were very kind to Christians.
As a matter of fact, they took care of our holy sites well.
They had rebuilt, Islamic authorities rebuilt the Church of the Sepulchre three different times over the centuries.
They had a law protecting Christian pilgrims on their journey.
Like, nobody messed with the pilgrims.
Three times, yes.
yeah either completely rebuilt it or a major renovation one time it caught on fire and they redid the the roof but if you've seen the church of the holy sepulcher you can imagine what it took to redo that it's an enormous it's enormous and decaying i will sadly it's an amazing place well a lot of those sites have started to decay since 1948. that one definitely is decaying and
Some of the opposition to the Zionist project in Great Britain in the 1940s was on account of the Muslim authorities having taken such good care of our Christian sites that it was a bit of a gamble.
to let Jewish authorities do that.
I've heard people say, if it wasn't for Israel, we wouldn't be able to go visit our holy sites.
There wouldn't even be holy sites anymore.
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