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In reply to the discussion: Muslims are no Different, or why Bill Maher’s blood libel is Bigotry [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)All that work has been done, Christianity has been established by brutal force across europe, the western hemisphere, Australia and Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa. Competitors have been obliterated, their wealth plundered, their adherents burned, tortured, shot, stabbed, hanged, and drowned.
we now live in sucessor-states that carry on the same policies of conquest, killing, and plunder. The success over the "infidels" was so thorough that there was really no need to maintain the various forms of inquisition; Can you take five steps in the United States and not be surrounded by reminders of the religiosity of this country? You can't even spend pocket change without it being shouted in your face by the coinage.
That we no longer use the cross as a banner when wading into battle is more product of compromise among the christian hordes, rather than an abandonment of the principle - there would be more time spent fighting over what demonination's cross variety would be flown, than spent on fighting the infidels abroad, after all. Even so, we need only tun our heads a slight degree to find someone, somehwee, using the US flag as a stand-in for religious symbolism. God and country, represented in one patch of cloth.
So no, there is just the one christian theocracy standing as such in the modern world. but there are absolute scads of inheritors, peopled and staffed by Christians, gnashing their teeth and howling for blood of the infidel just the same.