Raymond Ibrahim
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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I think the important point of the Two Swords of Christ, the new book, is that it literally looks at the two swords of Christ.
The verse where the disciples, after Christ tells them, sell your cloak and buy a garment, he who has no sword.
And they say, look, Lord, here are two swords.
And he says, that's enough.
Now, according to modern day Christian theologians, that verse means absolutely nothing because it doesn't mean anything about swords and so forth.
But for the medieval Christians, and especially the Crusaders, it actually meant that there are two swords to be used against two sorts of evil.
Spiritual evil, which modern-day Christians still acknowledge, but also physical, secular, material, corporeal, evil, human evil, human agency.
And so that's how they understood it, and that's why I think it's ironic, and people will be surprised when they read the book, that this logic actually showed you how the most pious men—these men were monks, essentially—
were also the most militant at the same time.
And there was no contradiction between the twain in their minds because they understood that what they were doing was in defense of Christ, Christendom, Christ's body, literally the church.
And they were regularly martyred and they were seen as martyrs.
So I think it's going to be a very different take for how most modern day Christians, including of the doormat variety, as I've dubbed them,
who believe that their job is just to be a doormat and be walked all over because that's what Christ apparently wants.
To see that, no, you actually had these extremely pious Christian men who were also more militant than any other character from history.
And as far as the Muslim Brotherhood and what we're talking about today, I think the continuity is really remarkable when you see... Hang on, we're going to take a short break.
Steve, without the church militants, Christianity would have died out a long time ago.
And, you know, I have a quote, I think, in Defenders of the West from Teddy Roosevelt, president, who says exactly that.
He says he basically says the Europeans, the Christians of Europe had not fought back.
He specifically names the Muslims and he names all the long centuries.
Christianity would have been snuffed out.
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