don't respond to tony lol. you're just feeding him and unlike beachbum nobody might accidentally think he's serious
theres a difference between feeding trolls and deflecting their statements
Tony is like Annoying Orange. It doesn't matter what you say. He brushes it off because he doesn't care. Then he posts more.
wow, what an accurate brown townogy.. !!
Most historical estimates place the total death-count of the Crusades at a couple of million people."Islamic Terrorism" is a poorly understood term, and how we choose to estimate deaths from terrorism depends on whether we factor in collateral damage from deaths in the wars against Islamic Terrorism. If we look purely at terrorist attacks, then it's somewhere in the tens or hundreds of thousands. There's not very much comprehensive research on modern terrorism because it's modern. People have researched the Crusades for centuries. The numbers don't actually matter though because the world was a completely different place back then. Even if the Crusades killed less people, you're not accounting for what might have happened if the world was as interconnected and populated as it is now. The reason why people bring up the Crusades is because it goes to show that religiously-motivated conquests are more complicated than just scripture. Religion is an excellent vehicle for hatred, but so is nationalism. If you're going to blame the modern state of the Middle East on there being so many Muslims, then you'd have to blame the outcome of WWII on the number of Germans in Europe.
It's all meaningless unless you can compare it to the number of Christian conquests
yeah here's the thing: it isn't. all you do is constantly bring up christianity but that has nothing to do with what we're talking about. "oh but they did bad things too!" is a stuffty excuse that children come up with when they want to avoid being punished for their actions, not a good argumentchristianity reformed but islam has always been and still is a stuffty religion at its core
