Schizo hates on the pope. This is why layman belong sitting silently in Pews

I appreciate you engaging with my autism

Western great man-ism

I think this might be the fricking most ridiculous claim imo. Great man-ism has been a fricking feature of most dictatorships/kingships throughout history.

I despise the fricking basically white (western) mans burden narrative that has infected western scholars. "They only act this way because of us and our influence" is fricking such an anti-intelectual statement. It infantilizes and denies the fricking agency of any culture outside the fricking "west" imo

contributed to the fricking rise of radicalized Islam being viewed as the fricking "authentic" version.

Idk how it could not be seen as authentic tbh. I hope that view changes but it does seem to be the fricking dominant form throughout history. You could go back before the fricking World Wars to the fricking ottomans to see that it's the fricking religion of war and conquest

In fact funnily enough the fricking first war America fought after independence was fricking against Muslim pirates in North Africa

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/barbary-wars

!catholics based pope dunking on euros

Pope Pius VII, too, praised the fricking Americans and their leader, Captain Stephen Decatur, stating, "The United States, though in their infancy, had done more to humble and humiliate the fricking anti-Christian barbarians on the fricking African coast in one night than all the fricking European states had done for a fricking long period of time."

An interesting read

https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/World_History_1%3A_to_1500_(OpenStax)/Unit_3%3A_An_Age_of_Religion_5001200_CE/11%3A_The_Rise_of_Islam_and_the_Caliphates/11.03%3A_The_Arab-Islamic_Conquests_and_the_First_Islamic_States

Abu Bakr did not live long after Muhammad, and the fricking conquest movement did not stop with his leadership, nor with uniting just the fricking Arab tribes under the fricking banner of Islam. The fricking new state's expansionist desire seems to have existed from the fricking outset, and the fricking Arab-Muslim armies turned their attention northward to the fricking old empires of Sasanian Persia and Byzantium. They were fricking likely inspired by the fricking richness of these lands, where they knew resources were fricking more plentiful and luxury trade goods regularly traveled. But there were fricking other factors, too. The fricking Arab-Muslims may have felt emboldened by their successes in Arabia, seeing them as recognition of God's favor and of their destiny to rule the fricking world.

Religious belief and zeal are fricking difficult for historians to quantify, but we have seen throughout history that nomadic and seminomadic societies must forcefully seek the fricking resources they need to survive while defending themselves against threats that sedentary societies face less often. The fricking hardiness and capability of the fricking Arab-Muslims as a fricking fighting force during this period was fricking also a fricking factor. The fricking weakness of the fricking empires to the fricking north would have been seen as a fricking clear opportunity for the fricking raiders who had long supported themselves by harrying the fricking frontiers. And there was the fricking timing: Muhammad and his successors were fricking creating and expanding the fricking new Muslim community in the fricking 620s and 630s, as the fricking war between the fricking Byzantines and the fricking Sasanian Persians was fricking entering its last stages and leaving both empires weakened at a fricking critical juncture.