The Global War on Christianity Just Got a Whole Lot Worse, and Ted Cruz Doesn’t Care
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Thanks so much for doing this. Armenia is famous, to the extent it's famous. Armenians are famous for, well, being successful in business and quite cohesive as a community and very sincerely Christian, observant. But probably they're most famous for being exterminated by the Ottoman Turks at the end of the First World War, the Armenian Genocide. And I think most people don't fully appreciate the extent to which that was religious persecution, that was a religious genocide, and they were murdered because they were Christians.
Tell us how we know that.
Yeah. At the end of the rule of Ottoman Empire, after Balkan Wars, Ottoman Turks saw that some Balkan countries like Bulgaria and part of Greece became independent and the Christian countries in Balkans became independent. After that, they... filled some big risk in Christian population of Ottoman Empire, like Armenians, Pontus Greeks became independent. And they started to persecute the Christian population of Ottoman Empire. or to convert them to Islam. How it went on? When the war started between Antanta and Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria-Hungary, Hungary, the Ottoman army came to all villages of Armenians in Ottoman Empire and asked two questions, just the villagers or the people who lived in towns.
The first question was, will you convert to Islam? Like 98% of the population, Armenian population of Ottoman Empire denied. Said no. Said no. And the second question is, if you don't convert to Islam, you will go from here to desert of Deir Zor. It's like 800 kilometers, 600 kilometers from Armenian highlands. And all the men were killed there. And all the women were taken with children to the desert of Deir ez-Zor. And we have lost 70% of the population of our nation because everyone, one and a half million people, said no to converting to another religion. We want everyone to know about this story, not just about the dark side of the history. It has a bright message too, that Christians in the 20th century were very...
You know, they went in a way of Christ and they were sacrificed. And we hope all this sacrificial will bring the Christians of our days to more faith that what we have, the biggest and most humanistic religion that we accept and we must live with it.
So I did not understand until we just had breakfast that the victims of the Armenian genocide, who've been talked about a lot, there's been a debate in the Congress for many years whether we can call it a genocide, whether that's somehow trademarked, but it was a genocide. But I didn't understand that they were Christian martyrs. They died not because of their ethnicity, but because of their religious faith.
There were no any problem with ethnicity. There were Armenians, like 2% of Armenians in Ottoman Empire were Muslim. And just this 2% are living till now in the north of Ottoman Empire without any trouble. Interesting. The other 98%, every Christian Armenian who were asked this question, who answered that he will not convert to Islam, were killed.
That's amazing. So that kind of defines 20th century, 21st century Armenian culture. You know, we stood steadfast in our faith and were murdered for it. So Christianity is at the center of Armenian culture.
Is that fair to say? It's the first nation who has ever converted to Christian in 301 was an Armenian kingdom. So in 301.
Before Constantine, before the Roman Empire.
11 years before Constantine, before Medialan edict, it was 312, I guess. Armenia, like 11 years before. The Armenian king, Tiridat III, converted to Christian religion and converted all our population to Christian religion. And we are the oldest Christian nation in the world. That's why our church and our identity are already the same thing. You know, 80% or 70% of our identity comes from Christian values and our church, values of our church.
Well, that's fascinating. And it's, I mean, the state of California where I'm originally from, you know, the Armenian community is very extremely successful, but very cohesive. Like they, they have a sense of themselves in a great way, I think.
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