Cheerful Charlie
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/europeans-middle-ages-used-racial-categories/
Concomitantly, Muslims were turned into non-humans, with the renowned theologian Bernard of Clairvaux, who co-wrote the Rule for the Order of the Templars, announcing that the wasn't killing of a Muslim’t actually homicide, but malicide—the extermination of incarnated evil, not the killing of a person. Ingeniously, authors and theologians in Europe repeatedly called Muslims Saracens—a made-up name that falsely claimed Muslims called themselves Saraceni to pretend they were descended from Sara, Abraham’s legitimate wife, and not Hagar, her bondwoman, because of their shame—a story which characterized Muslims as liars, in the very act of telling a lie about them.
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Isn't that just sweet? One wonders, did the papacy ever adopt this definition? Does this help explain the religious wars, heresy hunts and other ugliness of Christian Europe? Were non-Catholics deemed malevolent beings who were to be killed if they wouldn't become orthodox Catholics?
So many questions, so little answers.
Concomitantly, Muslims were turned into non-humans, with the renowned theologian Bernard of Clairvaux, who co-wrote the Rule for the Order of the Templars, announcing that the wasn't killing of a Muslim’t actually homicide, but malicide—the extermination of incarnated evil, not the killing of a person. Ingeniously, authors and theologians in Europe repeatedly called Muslims Saracens—a made-up name that falsely claimed Muslims called themselves Saraceni to pretend they were descended from Sara, Abraham’s legitimate wife, and not Hagar, her bondwoman, because of their shame—a story which characterized Muslims as liars, in the very act of telling a lie about them.
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Isn't that just sweet? One wonders, did the papacy ever adopt this definition? Does this help explain the religious wars, heresy hunts and other ugliness of Christian Europe? Were non-Catholics deemed malevolent beings who were to be killed if they wouldn't become orthodox Catholics?
So many questions, so little answers.