Raymond Ibrahim
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1,204 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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And that's what most modern day Christians don't realize, especially those who sort of, you know, poo poo the modern day crusaders or the crusaders of history and say they weren't real Christians.
If it wasn't for all the blood that they'd spilled on behalf of Christendom, there would be no Christianity, to be honest with you.
And that's very self-evident when you realize that three quarters of the Christian world was conquered and swallowed up till this very day by Islam.
And I'm speaking, of course, of the older, richer, more profound region where Christendom was located, and that would be North Africa and the Middle East.
You know, all that was left was Rome in the West, but Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Antioch were all swallowed up by Islam, and it continued century after century.
And so that's what gave rise, you know, these people weren't militants by nature.
They really, they were monks.
Think about the hospitallers, for example.
Their whole life was to be hospice workers.
and serving pilgrims and helping them and taking care of their medical needs and feeding them and giving them their beds.
But at the same time, they also learned that the only way to really help the pilgrims was to go on the offense and preempt what was going to happen, which is an Islamic attack on these pilgrims who were coming to Europe.
So they had no problem wedding Christian theology with militancy.
And not just them, actually.
This goes all the way back, remember, to Augustine and so many other... I quote a lot extensively St.
Bernard of Clairvaux, who's really the spiritual father of all military orders.
And he gives you all the verses and...
shows you the militancy behind that, and it's not just the Old Testament, by the way, as we saw with the two swords of Christ in Luke.
So I think if modern day Christians, like I said, I call them doormats, and of course Christianity teaches love and peace and forgiveness and tolerance, but it's being pulled out of context as if that's all there is to it.
What's great about Christianity is that it tempered
But it still kept, you know, the necessary forms of violence and justice, such as just war theory, which all, of course, fused into what we know as chivalry.
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