• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yeah you remember the 4th Crusade right? I think that kind of derails your argument here buddy.

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      1 month ago

      How does the 4th Crusade retroactively revert the ownership of the Levant in the 4th-7th centuries under the Christian Eastern Roman Empire.

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        1 month ago

        Never suggested it did. However I’d like to hear your argument as to how Catholics were just trying to reclaim it for Christians when they were slaughtering Romans and sacking Constantinople.

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          1 month ago

          Never suggested it did.

          Then you aren’t arguing against a position I’ve actually put forward.

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            1 month ago

            The position you put forward had nothing to do with the general Topic at hand? Your position did not try to refute the comment you quoted in that post? When he specifically mentioned Catholics in the post and you quoted it? Just a complete deviation that had no merit? Well my mistake then I apologize. I thought you were participating in the conversation.

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              1 month ago

              As I quoted in my original response:

              Those weren’t really Christians “trying to reclaim lost lands,” since the Middle East was never “owned” by Christians. Christianity, especially Catholicism never really took root in the Middle East until much later,