Christians were severely taxed, they were forced to pay disproportionately higher taxes than Muslims within the empire, including the humiliating poll-tax. Even pregnant mothers had to pay jizya on behalf of their unborn children.
Between the 14th and 17th centuries, the Ottomans had the the devshirme system, a practice of taking young Christian boys from their families and being raised as Muslims.
Christians were tortured, deprived of formal education, and martyred. Conversion from Islam to Christianity was a death sentence.
On Easter Sunday, April 22, 1821, the Ottoman Turks hanged the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople. He was executed in full liturgical vestments at the main gate of the Patriarchal compound. His body was left hanging for three days before being dragged through the streets and thrown into the Bosporus. The main entrance of the Phanar (the Saint Peter Gate) has been permanently welded shut till date in memory of his martyrdom.
They really do see coming to the West, taking our jobs, and exploiting our system as payback for ‘colonization.’
Believe them when they tell you. They are not here to contribute. It’s retribution.
This mindset explains the nepotism, scams…everything.
@FitzInfo I understand your critique of cult of Mary within the Catholic Church. But what’s wrong with the Rosary it’s found other Christian traditions. There’s version of it in the Orthodox Church and Early Protestantism. From what I’ve learned
SPECULATION: Jay's apologetic retirement may actually be evidence of the American Eastern hierarchy cracking down on the Orthobros.
First, it's notable that he chooses to emphasise how no one "told" him to do this, at least not "as of yet." This most of all suggests to me that he (and likely others, as I'll show) got a love tap from the hierarchy "suggesting" that he change course, with the implicit threat of real consequences if he refuses.
The more telling point is when Jonathan Pageau announced that his own bishop suggested last Sunday that he step away from apologetics. A priest would be one thing, but a *bishop*?
I was also just made aware of testimony from laymen who apparently know of actual moves being made by the American hierarchy to this effect. I don't have them directly, but through a reliable intermediary, so I won't press this hard.
Still, taken together, it appears that the American Easternist clergy are taking serious action against the Orthobros, which I suspected since at least back when the Australian Eparchy cracked down on "clergy influencers" (article link below).
Once again, this is just speculation. And tbh it reads like the plot of Goodfellas.
“Dear White people…dear gentiles…I don’t hate you like the rest of the Jews… If you want to avoid White Genocide..Be a Jew…Convert to Judaism…that way you don’t have to die like the goyim”
“We control everything”
Jewish man talks about gentiles.
@MauricePinay Yes indeed, also the opium wars, the transatlantic slave trade, European sex slavery trade and also the crime of all crime deicide?!. We Jews don't apologize, will you apologize for being antisemitic
If you absolutely insist!
“Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.” 1 Timothy 2:11-15
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As a Muslim, there's something that genuinely bothers me.
Millions of Muslims live in Christian majority countries, build mosques, preach Islam publicly, distribute Qur'ans, open halal businesses, and demand religious freedom,and rightly so.
Some even call for aspects of Shariah to be accommodated in the societies they've moved to.
Yet in some Muslim majority countries, Christians cannot openly preach the Gospel, build churches freely, or practice their faith without restrictions.
Why?
If we demand religious freedom for ourselves, we should be willing to grant it to others.
Truth does not need censorship.
If Islam is the truth, it has nothing to fear from a church, a Bible, or a Christian preacher.
You can't demand tolerance and freedom for Muslims abroad while denying the same freedoms to others at home.
The double standard needs to be called out.