Quote (Bananii @ Jun 21 2022 09:00am)
well, if i remember right, few hundred years back, for example in spain there used to live all religions together. muslims, jews,christians, etc.
one day the church decided to „convince“ those mixed up ppl just to accept christianity as their religion.
over 2 millions people died that time, because they didnt want to convert to christianity.
its just 1 example.
dawkin lied.
The Reconquista was a centuries long struggle political struggle between Christian and Islamic rulers, one which began as a result of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.
"...And then one day, for no reason at all, the Church decided to kick Muslims out of Spain" is an elementary school tier rendition of history.
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The beginning of the Reconquista is traditionally marked with the Battle of Covadonga (718 or 722), the first known victory by Christian military forces in Hispania since the 711 military invasion which was undertaken by combined Arab-Berber forces. The rebels who were led by Pelagius defeated a Muslim army in the mountains of northern Hispania and established the independent Christian Kingdom of Asturias.[3]
In the late 10th century, the Umayyad vizier Almanzor waged military campaigns for 30 years to subjugate the northern Christian kingdoms. His armies ravaged the north, even sacking the great Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. When the government of Córdoba disintegrated in the early 11th century, a series of petty successor states known as taifas emerged. The northern kingdoms took advantage of this situation and struck deep into al-Andalus; they fostered civil war, intimidated the weakened taifas, and made them pay large tributes (parias) for "protection".
After a Muslim resurgence under the Almohads in the 12th century, the great Moorish strongholds in the south fell to Christian forces in the 13th century after the decisive battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)—Córdoba in 1236 and Seville in 1248 —leaving only the Muslim enclave of Granada as a tributary state in the south. After the surrender of Granada on January 1492, the entire Iberian peninsula was controlled by Christian rulers. On 30 July 1492, as a result of the Alhambra Decree, all the Jewish community —some 200,000 people— were forcibly expelled. The conquest was followed by a series of edicts (1499–1526) which forced the conversions of Muslims in Spain, who were later expelled from the Iberian peninsula by the decrees of King Philip III in 1609.[4][5][6]
This post was edited by bogie160 on Jun 21 2022 10:23am