Religious war

The reader will go back with us to a time, not very remote, when nothing was known of phrenology and psychology, when men and women were persecuted, and even put to death, through the baldest ignorance and the most pitiable superstition.

If we were to go back still farther to the Holy Wars, we should find cities and nations drenched in human blood through religious bigotry and intolerance.

Let us thank God that our lot is cast in a more fortunate age, when the light of revelation, rightly interpreted by the aid of science, points to the source of all knowledge, all truth, all light.

When we know more of anatomy, physiology, physiognomy, and the natural sciences generally, there will be a spirit of broader liberality, religious tolerance, and individual freedom.

"Europe" Guy shoots back a look.

"Europe? You could escape with me to the Netherlands, fight in the Holy War alongside the King of Spain.

Only one thing, you'll need to leave the name Guy Fawkes behind" Guy stares back at him.

He picks up a knife and starts to idly carve his name into the tabletop.

Instead, he carves a single line, an I, followed by a D and an O.

He looks at the name in the table, Guido.

He'll escape with the priest, keep his family safe, fight in the Holy War, and reinvent himself as a Catholic revolutionary by the name of Guido Fawkes.

Imagine you're reading Pride and Prejudice, except you're not reading it.

He's gotten rid of so many of the people of color at senior levels, and he's hoping that that these gaps are filled by people who think like him.

He looks at things through a holy war lens.

And if you look at his religious leader or advisors, they're saying things like women shouldn't vote.

So there's a misogynistic piece, there's a religious piece, and he's trying to influence the internal future of the Pentagon, hoping that he has some kind of internal force to be used for whatever the freak his plan is because it is not focused externally.

Like he's so stupid at the beginning when he was 17 as a fledgling terrorist, the only word he knew in Arabic was jihad.

So he named himself Jihad Abu Jihad ibn Jihad.

Or, wait, Jihad ibn Jihad Abu Jihad, which is Holy War, son of Holy War, father of Holy War.

But there's nothing in the book that is false.

Chapter 11.

Social and Religious Wars in Germany, Part 1 Germany was full of hope at the beginning of Charles V's reign.

A desire for national unity and independence was felt throughout the land.

All men longed for a reform of the church and for freedom from the papal exactions.

Section seventeen of The Renaissance and the Reformation by Emmeline Tanner.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by Pamela Nagami.

Book three, chapter two, Social and Religious Wars in Germany, part two.

By arguments such as these and by the promise of the electoral dignity then held by the Ernestine branch of the family, the Emperor won over Maurice, Duke of Saxony.

Christians are called to go to war, to wage war, to wage holy war.

Do you believe that? How do you understand it? Where would you go in scripture to find it?

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I'm Pastor George Sayor.

This is Shadows to Substance here on the EM Network.

And we are going to talk holy war.

plans for holy war yes that book is not opened up yet we've heard of the concept of holy war and you've heard in the new testament that that is spiritualized and indeed it is but how does that work and does the bible anticipate it what does it have to do with shadows to substance well what we're going to do is walk through a short section of zechariah chapter 9. to see how the scriptures portray this holy war that the messiah will bring And so if you are familiar with Zechariah 9, this is the great passage that is referenced and fulfilled in all four gospels as Christ comes mounted on a donkey.

Zechariah 9, 9, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you, righteous and having salvation, as he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Now, regardless of who actually killed the friar, the pope seizes on this single murder as the perfect pretext.

He uses it to launch a massive coordinated military campaign that he officially designated a holy war.

So understand the gravity of this.

We need to explain how a holy war or a crusade actually functioned economically and spiritually at this time.

Because the pope didn't just have a standing army he could deploy, right?

Right.

They're incredibly expensive, highly destructive to the tax base and politically unstable.

Exactly.