dsgrue3 said:
I didn't cherry pick sources, I cited every single one listed on that website? The absence of religion isn't the religion of absence. You cannot state that because a country (or leader) isn't religious that none of its citizens are. Plenty of Communists are religious. Your argument, again, is unfounded in logic or reason but based purely upon your own suppositions. Crusades primary interest was about religion, not power. Power was secondary. Power was prime in the case of the leaders you mentioned, and not atheism. Again, completely different. Just acknowledge this fact so we can move on. Every single person in this thread has told you that your comparison is flawed. Own it. |
Hahaha, this is getting kinda funny. Keep grasping at those straws. What the fuck do suddenly the citizens of a country have to do with anything? There were religious people in communist countries, of course. But they faced daily fear of persecution and maybe even imprisonment because of their religion. Let me post that link for you again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Soviet_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_anti-religious_legislation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_atheism
Religion was merely AN EXCUSE to start the crusades, power was the primary interest (just like with EVERY started war). Big difference between those 2. You would do good to remember them







