Raymond Ibrahim
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6 recordings
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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And Sword of the Scimitar is number four.
Um, but they keep fluctuating, but two swords of Christ has been at number one since basically came actually before it came out, which is great.
Uh, I think, you know, the appeal of the two swords of Christ is you're just, it's not just the history, but it's the, uh, an explanation of the theological underpinning of Christian militancy, which I think is a very important topic that, um, a lot of people prefer not to hear.
Sure, and I'll just start off by saying even people like Francis of Assisi, who are so widely seen as being passive, he was actually fully on board with the Crusades.
And I talk a little bit about it in The Two Swords of Christ because he figures in there.
And his goal was one of the main goals was actually instead of killing and fighting with Muslims, let's try to convert them.
And, you know, he risked his life on numerous occasions, but he was fully on board with the idea of a military order and a monk who fights war.
And so I think the issue, you know, Steve, I've been given this much thought, but what's going on now, I think, with Western Christianity, and I think this is the inherent problem, is that no matter what Christians say, they're all in the end...
despite themselves, they're materialists.
And what I mean by that is they've lost the metaphysical understanding of theology and morality.
And so everything is distilled in a materialist point of view, just like an atheist, which is my way of saying that
they think all that, you know, what is good and evil is based on the material.
Therefore, the worst thing a Christian can do is physically hurt someone because it's the material.
We acknowledge that.
But things like morality, because they're metaphysical, and this is why you have all these Christians saying, oh, you know, don't judge.
Oh, you know, love is love and all that sort of thing.
So I think when you look at
the world through a materialist lens, like a lot of Christians do, violence and killing become the absolute greatest sin.
That's not how earlier Christians seen it because they actually were Christians and they actually accepted in the metaphysical, that which is beyond the physical as even more important.
So things like morality was much more important than physical harm.
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