Christians actually believing in their messiah’s message of peace Challenge Level 100 (Impossible)
new_lance on
You do realize the First Crusade was started because the Turks were invading Byzantine right?
Kitfennek on
Sure the guy who said to kill the unbelievers before him was against war
Indvandrer on
Isaiah 48:22 – „There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked”
MunkSWE94 on
Probably because these kinds of christians who’ll quote the Old Testament, but if you point that out they get mad and tell you to follow the teachings of Christ.
ArcticFlamingoDisco on
All successful religions have engaged in warfare at some point.
Same with countries. Including officially atheist countries.
And any social animal or insect.
Almost like anything alive is resource constrained and has to compete for survival.
chrisGPl on
Holy war (regarding the Middle East crusades) was the pope’s way of exerting influence on armies and getting troublemakers out of Europe.
When people caught on to that (especially after a king got Jerusalem back, but the pope still excommunicated him) crusades stopped being so popular (no one wants to be a pawn in political games).
Then they found other crusades to have fun🥴 (against Ottomans, in Prussia etc).
IzgubljenaBudala on
Right, because medieval people defending pilgrimage routes and territories after centuries of expansion by neighboring empires that burned holy sites, killed Christians, and raped nuns is obviously best summarized as “wow holy war is cool”
TheMermanly on
Holy war is in fact pretty cool
AvantSolace on
When you actually read Jesus’ teachings, you realize really quick just how far Christianity strayed from them. Be kind to foreigners. Don’t look down on people. Pay your taxes. Greed is pure evil. God WILL call out hypocrisy. Try your best to be a good person.
CompleteJinx on
Hey! We haven’t had a holy war in a while.
Cheesefinger69 on
Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land
Odd-Personality-1233 on
Tired af of this take
Read the gospels, Jesus was not a nice guy and did not want peace, he was an insane cult leader and thats all there is to it
Slow_Cricket_6685 on
Do you not actually know history? Jesus was killed by Jewish People and The Roman Empire. Then they killed everybody that knew anything about Jesus. And then, centuries later, they decided to pretend to believe in him to get their way. If you would tell the truth about Jesus; the AntiChristian religion in his name would fall apart in seconds. Why would anyone trust a murderer to tell the truth about their victim? Especially long after everyone that knew anything was gone; and “heresies” were enough to lose your life? Look up Gnosticism, and stop being Satan’s fool.
Nacodawg on
The Crusades are peak Christian aesthetic but are an insane failure of Christian ideal. The armor is cool as fuck, but shit were they dumb.
No_Bedroom4062 on
Idk, taking back what conquered from you sounds pretty okay.
Not like they went out to take mecca
HyperionPhalanx on
Mohammed the moment he woke up from his prophetic stupor : “I don’t know where I am, but all I know is that I must kill”
BeefDerfex on
It’s crazy how humans knew nothing but
Peace before the birth of Jesus.
ApolloniusTyaneus on
Your meme ignores two millennia of charity. Yes, Christians did some horrible stuff in name of their beliefs. But all those orphanages, hospitals and soup kitchens didn’t build themselves either.
Eternal_Bagel on
If they really want to act violently for Jesus he had a well documented dislike of moneylenders, so they should be attacking any even mildly predatory loan institutions
False-Fox9285 on
This will never ever happen. Even the most inclusive and accepting community will hate other people for their beliefs or opinions.
popbobscock on
To be fair… holy wars is a banger song…
Traditional_Web9876 on
As a Christian it baffles me how throughout history and even today people use his message to do deplorable things
brain-dysfunction on
….Crusades didn’t span 2000 years.
Pizza_Rausku on
To be fair holy war is pretty cool
more-thanordinary on
The things that COULD go in that thought bubble could fill libraries
Uncle-Cake on
“Let us now touch children, in the name of Jesus, Amen”
Illesbogar on
It’s less his follower misunderstanding him and more his and god’s representatives mischaracterising him to get the people to do what they want. To be fair, they made the whole religion for control. So it’s less of a bug and more feature.
goatedwiththesauce42 on
Also politics, sorry, but I hate the Democrats. Just as much as the Republicans, the whole system needs to come down. That’s exactly what jesus stood for it blows my mind.No one else can comprehend this.
Sir_Marshal on
Pagan Rome became Papal Rome.
Christians were persecuted and killed now accepted.
(Christians are still persecuted in different places across the world)
*Christians casually existing*
Muhammad (yes, the one who got beat up by Lucifer and tried to get the early church council on his side but then got called a heretic): *enters the chat and begins the plague of forced conversion, slavery Part 2, harem wars and more different wars*
Christians, after millions of them die: *Retaliate*
The World: “Why is Christianity so violent?”
devrim_y on
That’s basically every Abrahamic religion lol
RattusNorvegicus9 on
Kinda ironic that the same empire that crucified Jesus turned around and made Christianity the state religion.
Doubt Jesus would approve of that.
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Jesus Christ a jew : love eachother
His followers: man i sure hates Jews
Christians actually believing in their messiah’s message of peace Challenge Level 100 (Impossible)
You do realize the First Crusade was started because the Turks were invading Byzantine right?
Sure the guy who said to kill the unbelievers before him was against war
Isaiah 48:22 – „There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked”
Probably because these kinds of christians who’ll quote the Old Testament, but if you point that out they get mad and tell you to follow the teachings of Christ.
All successful religions have engaged in warfare at some point.
Same with countries. Including officially atheist countries.
And any social animal or insect.
Almost like anything alive is resource constrained and has to compete for survival.
Holy war (regarding the Middle East crusades) was the pope’s way of exerting influence on armies and getting troublemakers out of Europe.
When people caught on to that (especially after a king got Jerusalem back, but the pope still excommunicated him) crusades stopped being so popular (no one wants to be a pawn in political games).
Then they found other crusades to have fun🥴 (against Ottomans, in Prussia etc).
Right, because medieval people defending pilgrimage routes and territories after centuries of expansion by neighboring empires that burned holy sites, killed Christians, and raped nuns is obviously best summarized as “wow holy war is cool”
Holy war is in fact pretty cool
When you actually read Jesus’ teachings, you realize really quick just how far Christianity strayed from them. Be kind to foreigners. Don’t look down on people. Pay your taxes. Greed is pure evil. God WILL call out hypocrisy. Try your best to be a good person.
Hey! We haven’t had a holy war in a while.
Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land
Tired af of this take
Read the gospels, Jesus was not a nice guy and did not want peace, he was an insane cult leader and thats all there is to it
Do you not actually know history? Jesus was killed by Jewish People and The Roman Empire. Then they killed everybody that knew anything about Jesus. And then, centuries later, they decided to pretend to believe in him to get their way. If you would tell the truth about Jesus; the AntiChristian religion in his name would fall apart in seconds. Why would anyone trust a murderer to tell the truth about their victim? Especially long after everyone that knew anything was gone; and “heresies” were enough to lose your life? Look up Gnosticism, and stop being Satan’s fool.
The Crusades are peak Christian aesthetic but are an insane failure of Christian ideal. The armor is cool as fuck, but shit were they dumb.
Idk, taking back what conquered from you sounds pretty okay.
Not like they went out to take mecca
Mohammed the moment he woke up from his prophetic stupor : “I don’t know where I am, but all I know is that I must kill”
It’s crazy how humans knew nothing but
Peace before the birth of Jesus.
Your meme ignores two millennia of charity. Yes, Christians did some horrible stuff in name of their beliefs. But all those orphanages, hospitals and soup kitchens didn’t build themselves either.
If they really want to act violently for Jesus he had a well documented dislike of moneylenders, so they should be attacking any even mildly predatory loan institutions
This will never ever happen. Even the most inclusive and accepting community will hate other people for their beliefs or opinions.
To be fair… holy wars is a banger song…
As a Christian it baffles me how throughout history and even today people use his message to do deplorable things
….Crusades didn’t span 2000 years.
To be fair holy war is pretty cool
The things that COULD go in that thought bubble could fill libraries
“Let us now touch children, in the name of Jesus, Amen”
It’s less his follower misunderstanding him and more his and god’s representatives mischaracterising him to get the people to do what they want. To be fair, they made the whole religion for control. So it’s less of a bug and more feature.
Also politics, sorry, but I hate the Democrats. Just as much as the Republicans, the whole system needs to come down. That’s exactly what jesus stood for it blows my mind.No one else can comprehend this.
Pagan Rome became Papal Rome.
Christians were persecuted and killed now accepted.
(Christians are still persecuted in different places across the world)
*Christians casually existing*
Muhammad (yes, the one who got beat up by Lucifer and tried to get the early church council on his side but then got called a heretic): *enters the chat and begins the plague of forced conversion, slavery Part 2, harem wars and more different wars*
Christians, after millions of them die: *Retaliate*
The World: “Why is Christianity so violent?”
That’s basically every Abrahamic religion lol
Kinda ironic that the same empire that crucified Jesus turned around and made Christianity the state religion.
Doubt Jesus would approve of that.