Jerusalem is a holy city for christians, jews and muslims. All of them fought for the city and justified any means.
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Norwegian Crusade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (They sailed upwind to impress and shoed one horse with a golden shoe that fell off so that people would think all the horses had golden shoes!)
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Any of you know what muslims are called in the bible? Saracens. Do you know what the bible says to do to all saracens? Kill them.
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Wouldn't be much fun to change modern translations in the bible of Saracens into Muslims, would it? My ex girlfriend from high school once told me that thankfully the Saracens where extinct because they were a vile race that did not deserve to live. She also told me that if they were still around she would actually try to kill if she saw one. I didn't want to burst her bubble and tell her that Saracens are actually Muslims because she had many Muslim friends. In this case it doesn't really matter exactly what the bible says to do to Saracens or what the Quran says to do to christians or whatever. It is always those few fundamentalists who gets all the attention when they go out and shoot the priest because they think they are going to heaven (where the streets are laid with gold - c'mon).
What many of you Texans don't understand is that the religions we know and see today where formed through the Dark Ages in Europe and the battles over Jerusalem. They didn't have the internet back then, you know... And the bible was written in Latin which only the priests understood. Have a look at the different popes during those times. Oh, and please realize and understand that after the Dark Ages and the power struggles in Europe, the Muslims actually preserved all the written knowledge for us. We would have lost all of it without them, because all the monasteries were burned to the ground.
Oh, and there are four ways that you can interpret the bible.
Methods of interpreting the Bible: Introduction
Do you think the Quran can be interpreted in a few different ways too?
Would love to see the verse in the New Testament where it says to kill Saracens. And I hope you know the difference between interpretation and translation.