I’m Lebanese Maronite and my last name originated from a Walloon crusader or settler. It’s fairly common to find. There is definitely a distinction though between Latin Catholics and Maronites within the Christian community

Thank you for teaching me about my own people. I thought I was Phoenician/Canaanite, or Lebanese/Syrian. My grandparents identified as Syrians. Now I understand that I am Levantine. My other roots are in Lorraine, so maybe some of them were Crusaders as well.

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

Phoenicia was thousands of years ago. There is nothing left of that civilization. In the Orthodox community we have a form of Thalassemia that is only present in Macedonian Greeks. There was significant Greek settlement in the Levant. I personally have high levels of Cypriot DNA & have tested positive for the Phoenician markers. History is long and our ancestors come from all over.

@hornofsatanisksa

3 ай бұрын

If that's true go back home!!

@mlgdigimon

3 ай бұрын

If your Christian from Syria you could also be descendent from the Arab ghasnavids

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

Possibly Indirectly. The Ghassanids mostly converted to Islam. It is possible some made their ways into Christian communities. It is unlikely however as their religion was different from Christians in the Levant. @@mlgdigimon

@mlgdigimon

3 ай бұрын

what christianity did they practice?@@silasbishop3055

In the Middle East people, especially Christians, identify by their religious denominations more than mere ethnicity. In my country Iraq, Chaldean (pronounced Kal-dee-an) Catholics make up the majority of Christians in the country concentrated mostly in the northern part, in Ninava (Mosul) province. Second group are the Syriacs who are divided into Catholic and Orthodox, Catholics more in number. The Chaldeans are native ethnicity who split up from the Assyrians few centuries ago and joined the Catholic church and was given that name by the pope. So even though they are indigenous to the area, they are not related to the historical Babylonian Chaldean dynasty in the classic age but they are speakers of eastern dialect of Syriac Aramaic language and feuds exist between theses factions over the true origins and proper national identity. Chaldeans still speak Syriac, their mother tongue, at home until now while the Syriacs, ironically, speak northern Arabic dialect at home and church except the orthodox who use Syriac language for liturgy. An interesting Christian group in Iraq is the Anglo-Indians who came with British invasion and lived in bases like Baghdad and Kirkuk. Many have immigrated or assimilated into the Chaldeans. Christians in Iraq enjoined a relatively lineant treatment from the government. They were talented especially the Armenians and pioneered many aspects of the developing country like in medicine, art, industry and trade. The rise of Isis terrorism was the most severe blow they received in the recent 2 centuries but they are recovering well. Most of the last mellinium was dominated by massacres by the Turks so many Christian groups in Iraq trace their ancestry to more northern locations were they fleet and found more tolerance with Arabs in the south. Christians in the Middle East are so diverse and not united. Many have continously immigrated to USA and Europe if they could but now when the West does not welcome more immigrants and the economy is not good many are staying home so their numbers are rising.

@rtvitko

3 ай бұрын

Appreciate your elaborate and informative comment here. Thank you for sharing the facts and your perspective. You add color and depth!

@hadriel1228

3 ай бұрын

The "breaking off from the Assyrians" is a little more complicated than that. From what I've read (and confirmed by my professor who's a Chaldean priest), the Assyrian church was initially not in communion with Rome, till some decided to break away in order to enter into communion. For some reasons I can't remember, a switch happened where the ones the submitted to Rome later renounced their unity to it, and the ones that didn't break away came into communion with Rome. The Chaldeans are these ones that were broken away from but later came into communion. The Assyrians were the ones who broke off to join Rome and later rejected this and remain separated today.

@olekcholewa8171

3 ай бұрын

And they are all surrounded by Arab Iraqis who want to physically and culturally exterminate them.

@ITO_junji_Fan-zi9ss

24 күн бұрын

then in 2014, the fire nation unalive or forced these christians to abandon their faith. they are more than 1000 years of practicing their belief and suddenly ........ 😫

@constantius4654

20 күн бұрын

There has been a Jewish state in the Levant since the 1940's. It is now high time for there to be a fully independent Christian state in the Middle East too, where Christians of all denominations can live in complete peace and safety. The USA has spent billions supporting a Jewish state there. When is Christian America going to do the same for the Christians of the region?

Interesting! Outremer = outre' - mer (oo truh mehr), French for "over seas." Not Out-reemer.

In Iraq during Saddam Hussein reign, there was one prominent chrisrian person, Tariq Aziz, who was revolutionary council member and minister of foreign affairs. He was a Chaldean Christian English teacher who's original name was Mikhael Yohanna, but the Baath party founding leader Michel Aflaq saw it was better to adopt an Arabic non-christian stage name. The Iraqi government at the time wanted to give Chaldeans their cultural rights and recognize them as "Syriac" ethnicity but because of the conflicts among Christians themselves over their true ethnic identity, and a rising separatist movement lead by the Assyrian denomination, they finally dropped the idea and assimilated them as Christian "Arabs". Today Iraqi Christians are very well integrated with the rest of the Iraqi community culturally, even in the diaspora in the west.

Few of my French ancestors went to the Levant as crusaders and then went to Malta to defend Europe against the Turks. I'm so proud of them ❤✝️❤️

@georgios_5342

3 ай бұрын

Salutations de Grèce mon frère 🇬🇷♥️🇫🇷

@c.f.okonta8815

3 ай бұрын

They slaughtered innocent people you shouldn’t be proud of that

@Da_Truth

3 ай бұрын

But you still worship an Arab middle eastern guy as your ’God’.. how funny 😄?

@mobo7420

3 ай бұрын

Why would you be proud of being the descendant of crusaders? They had no job going to the Middle East, murdered people, and were eventually expelled.

@daybyday3840

3 ай бұрын

And now the Muslims from the Maghreb are in every French city.

You have been on fire, Masaman. Love the content and the analysis. Please keep it up, great to see more content from you.

Suggestions: 1. Aboriginal Australians 2. Maori/Moriori 3. Samaritrans (In depth look to modern times) 4. Irish vs. Scots-Irish-What is the difference? 5. What happened to the Normans? 6. People of the Channel Islands (Europe) 7. The specific Native American people of your own home area 8. Native American peoples of California (Pomo, Tongva, Story of Ishi, etc.) 9. Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearic Islands 10. Who were the Canaanites? 11. Cultural revivals 12. Cimmerians 13. What Happened to the Scythians? 14. Surprsing ethnic diaspora groups in America (ex. Liechtensteiner Americans, Sammarinese Americans, etc.) 15. Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Island, Palmerston Island, etc. 16. Additional exploration of indigenous peoples of far eastern India and Myanmmar (beyond just the Royhinga) "Scheduled Tribes" 17. Indigenous Peoples of The Phillipines, Singapore, and part of the Indonesian Archipeligo 18. *Bougainville Island-since that is almost guarenteed to be newst country in the world in a few years from the time of this writing. 19. Modern ethnicities of Greenland 20. Papua New Guinea

@antiantifa886

3 ай бұрын

Irish actually invaded pictland and they were called scotti.

@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female

3 ай бұрын

​@antiantifa886 Scotland >>>> Ireland.

@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female

3 ай бұрын

​@@antiantifa886 Btw cringe name and PFP.

@pendejo69

Ай бұрын

Pitcairn is cursed

@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female

Ай бұрын

@@pendejo69 How

Masaman, could you make a video about Brazil? Pardos officially became the majority here according to the last census. Great video btw.

@momo-cchi5978

3 ай бұрын

About damn time! Cos them clowns in they government been importing white folks from the old country like they was an endangered species they need to preserve. 😂

@matthewmann8969

3 ай бұрын

If Pardos are the majority then I do not see a good outcome or aftermath for the Amerindians, Sub Saharan Africans, And Far Easterners but Pardos would probably treat "Whites" with lots of red carpet releasing and open sesames yeah.

Love your videos! Always informative 😊

Yay, thank you for another video, Masaman!!!

dude videos are always a plasure to watch. Great video, Masaman!

Btw Massaman, I love your videos and been watching you for years, so special and accurate, and interestingly beautiful that you are so interested in my region of Levant and its people and history ❤ I love that!

very interesting video, never knew much about their history, thanks for this!

Love this youtube channel man pure gold mine!!

Your videos have always been super fasinating to watch.

Finally! you updated .

Vids been crazy good respect

Oh Masa. It fills my heart with joy when you upload. I'm about to learn a lot

Great work, I really appreciate

In Greek we've historically referred to these people as "Franco-Levantines", but they weren't just from France, they were from various countries. Especially after the 4th Crusade many of them came here, and lived in the Balkans and Anatolia until even the 20th century

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

Most were Italians. Even the "french" spoken by Levantines was Occitan with strong Italian influence.

@thibaultsardet7399

3 ай бұрын

​​@@silasbishop3055No the Bulk of the Western Crusaders, Templars or Hospitalliers forces were from Southern/Northern France until Flanders (Normandy, Angevins, Picards, Champagne, Artois, Blois, Poitevins, Lorrains, Languedoc, Provençals, Gascons, Aquitans, Roussillon, Auvergne, Limousin,, etc...) since the First Crusade. And Occitan was a Vulgar latin language like the others, not with Italian influence.

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

@@thibaultsardet7399 please follow the plot. Occitan was the language spoken during the crusades. Note Sabir was heavily influenced by Genoese dialect.

@thibaultsardet7399

3 ай бұрын

@@silasbishop3055 The plot is quite clear. I know Italian cities participated a lot to the Crusades (Sicily with the Hautevilles family, Venice or Genoa for ex.), with a lot of merchants too. But if even if all Christian Europe participated, the spearhead of the Crusaders contingents was mainly Frankish from the beginning. Yes, Occitan was spoken by the counts of Toulouse, Provence or Dukes of Aquitaine and Gascony, etc... So in the County of Tripoli in the Levant. It was also the language of Troubadours in European courts. And, Sabir is a big mix between Arab, Italian, but also French and Spanish.

Welcome back 😍 💕💕💕💕💕

what a fascinating history, certainly quite unique

This was great 👍

Outremer (from French) is not pronounced "out-remer" but "ootrə-mer". Outre = “beyond”; mer = “sea”.

Maps this video were splendid

Great video

Thanks!

@tbando2253

3 ай бұрын

Broke boy 😂 only 2$ send 10$ next time looser

Iesus Hominum Salvatore! Great video bro.

Interesting.

Do a video on what if Christianity (not counting its adherents from recent times as a result of European colonialism) had survived in Tunisia in particular and in the Maghreb in general.

thx. i am latin from europe.

Basically in short: the levant has never been one peoples home entirely, it’s a place you no one has home rights to essentially. Maybe aside froms under their newer title of the Phoenicians/andcanaan

@skp8748

3 ай бұрын

Not really the genetically closest people to ancient canaanite samples are modern Samaritans, Lebanese and Palestinians

Christians in the Middle East and North Africa are really fascinating to me

@TheBlinky81

3 ай бұрын

i am currently reading From the Holy Mountain by William Darmyple which is an amazing book that covers his journeys across the middle eastern Christian world during the late 80s. I highly recommend if you’re interested in MENA Christians. As time goes on there’s less and less of them… it’s truly a tragedy. As an Orthodox Christian myself, I have nothing but immense respect for all MENA Christians

@nanashi7779

25 күн бұрын

@@TheBlinky81 As time goes on there's less and less Christians generally, especially in Western Europe

What do you think about the Chukchi, the natives of Chukotka?

Very interesting ! Can you make videos about the native of Australia, the Papua and about the Khoïsan ?

Masaman's analyses are wonderfully researched and always thrilling to watch. It would be very interesting to have Masaman's research abilities to enter into detail about the filtering of news about current major conversions by Arabs and Berbers to Christianity. This could ultimately have massive consequences for the Middle East and North Africa, just as this process may be already far more advanced in China. Thank you for each & every totally superlative video. Love from England.

0:15 "The most"? That is literally the most peaceful place in the entire MENA, by far.

You need to do a vid on the muslim invasion of the middle east and persia.

hello Mason, can you please do a video about kabyle peaple (white berbers) ,thank you

Philip of Ibelin was a Crusader who's mother was an East Roman Princess. He left Cyprus for Lebanon. He brought with him many "Franks" and supported the Orthodox in County Tripoli, since that was part of his heritage. In this video you said "Greeks" a lot. Many of them would have been Melkites who could have been Greek, Aramaic or Arabic speaking.

Masaman video🤩🤩🤩🎉🎉

Please visit Demographia, it would mean a lot!

❤❤

What happened to your 2021 world map?

The reality is that crusaders often killed or expelled non christians from walled cities, but they left the Muslim peasantry unharmed in the countryside

Mason you got a Star Trek reference in there, Ferenge.

@eileenmcgovern9193

3 ай бұрын

This is the Persian word for foreigners

@baneofbanes

3 ай бұрын

Farang is the Persian word for Western Europeans.

You might want to fix the subtitles

You havent uploaded a lot in the last 2 years. Why?

12:30 is someone vacuuming in the background lol

Mason do a video about red,blonde hair and light eyes

So my mom did a DNA test we found Polish, German and Ukrainian but was interested was trace amount of Levantine DNA so we think there is crusaders in our ancestry

@mobo7420

3 ай бұрын

trace elements can also be statistical error

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

You probably have some Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry

@gadaadyn8190

Ай бұрын

@@silasbishop3055 its not because all my Ashkenazi Jewish genes shows up on my dad side and that makes sense with my family.

WAIT......they called the European merchants.....Ferengi? Did they know about the "Rules of Acquisition"?

@baneofbanes

3 ай бұрын

Farangi. It comes from Frank.

In the case of a Maronite Lebanese relative of mine ( I’m Greek) he recently did a dna ethnicity test and turned out to be almost 100% of Greek ancestry, particularly from Asia Minor and a tiny bit of modern Italian. 0 Arabic, Turkish or crusader origins though.

0:25 It's always a pleasure to see the Roman Empire at it's peak😉

What's up with the subtitles?

13:05 Can someone see what's written in the small white letters?

@mobo7420

3 ай бұрын

Assyrians, Maronites, Melkites, Copts, Latins, Protestants & Others.

@user-to7qd5gk5k

3 ай бұрын

@@mobo7420 i meant the smaller letters that are written under. Thank you

Kinda unrelated, but allegedly the current King of Spain is also the King of Jerusalem and some israelis give him preferential treatment over other foreign heads of state whenever he visits the Holy land...

@skp8748

3 ай бұрын

How

@BN.ja05

3 ай бұрын

@@skp8748 He inherited the title from Isabel and Ferdinand, whom were the closest noble relatives of the last Christian royal family from Jerusalem, before the muslims took over during the Crusades.

@skp8748

3 ай бұрын

@@BN.ja05 Muslims didn't take over in the crusades.

@BN.ja05

3 ай бұрын

@@skp8748 After* the crusades then.

❤where r new videos

I'd like to add even in medieval southeastern europe ,western europeans were commonly called franks

All land is equally holy.

Certain Med peeps went from Olive Skin to White Skin due to Non Med Euro admixture with Germanics, Nordics, Celts, Alpines, Slavs, And East Baltics you could see this in certain parts of Southern Europe, The Middle East, North Africa, And North Western South Asia with people with blonde, brown, red, orange, golden, strawberry, ginger, auburn, and chocolate hairs as well as blue and green eyes yeah.

@edwardruiz5515

3 ай бұрын

Hummm,🤔

@myohmy9000

3 ай бұрын

Also caucasians/Circassians, they made up a good bulk of those bought and sold during Islamic slave trade, and like certain Berber or subsaharan groups during the islamic golden age were highly sought after for their strength and beauty

@lonerider5933

3 ай бұрын

Doubt that it was due to frankish admixture. Sardinia is the most unaffected part of Europe by Yamnaya blood and is almost purely Neolithic farmer in genes and they still have a lot of light eyes and white skin present in the majority while olive skin is less in numbers.

@craz5634

3 ай бұрын

Doesn’t the gene for red hair literally originate in Anatolia or something?

@hishamalaker491

3 ай бұрын

So your telling me that I a Palestinian-Syrian Arab Muslim am pale and blond because of that? I wonder who my European ancestors were if I ever have had any. Though I think its likely of Circassian or Anatolian farmer ancestry not European but I dont care I am Levantine and I am Arab and I am Muslim nothing would change that I am just curious about ancestry. Also from what I do know from my white looking (Syrian side of the family) I have many mixtures some Hejazi Arab likely Meccan ancestry including what I mentioned like Circassian and likely Levantine now from the Palestinian side its mainly Jewish-cannanite mixture as is typical for any other Palestinian. I am convinced the Levant is the most genetically mixed place in the world.

Perhaps you might need to work on your captions properly.

The subtitles do not work properly

Most of them left during the Al-Hakem decree

Outremer is pronounced o tra mere.

not"it's needless to say",try"suffice it to say". G man

😮

So it's not through "Deus Vult" but "Optimum Pride"

Is anyone here making the connection between crusader states and israel?

@user-gr9fq9gt9w

3 ай бұрын

Only rac ists would.

@baneofbanes

3 ай бұрын

Not really. Franks aren’t native to the Levant. Jews are.

@user-gr9fq9gt9w

3 ай бұрын

@@baneofbanes There are many other native individuals in addition to Jews and Samaritans who were decented from the Canaanites. But not as a coherent ethnic group.

@skp8748

3 ай бұрын

​@@baneofbanes huh Jews? Explain how... levantine are indigenous to the levant.

Half of the Levant was still Christian even before the First Crusade.. The Frankish intermixture within the region is greatly overblown..

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

It's not really overblown. It is a piece of the genetic puzzle.

so cute to heir Masaman pronounce "Outre-mer" in French ...

0:55 assyrians man not syriak peoples. My ancestors are from hakkari

I would like to point out, muslims refered to slavs & romans (rumelians & italians) not as franks

@baneofbanes

3 ай бұрын

They referred to Italians as Franks.

@saratmodugu2721

3 ай бұрын

@@baneofbanes no they distinctly reffered to them as romans. An italian traveler who was aware of this reffered to himself, to an arab in mecca, as a roman

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

Rumelia is Greek. They would have called them Roum. The Greek Orthadox of the Levant are still called Roum.

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

@@saratmodugu2721 no. To refer to a Roman at that time meant a Greek speaking person in connection to the East Roman Empire. Italians at that point would have been called Frank's or Latins

@saratmodugu2721

3 ай бұрын

@@silasbishop3055 no, latin just a term referring to language they speak. This is why byzantines were called greek and roman during the middle ages and why Franks could include the romance speaking frenchmen to german speakers to slavs.

As a Frenchman, I died laughing at your pronunciation of "Outre-Mer", it's actually more like "ootruh mair". It actually means "overseas" and is also how we refer to our overseas territories (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guiana, Réunion, Mayotte, Polynesia, New Caledonia, etc.)

@BG6924TX

3 ай бұрын

Literally no one cares about your French pronunciation 😉

Can I get a ❤ please 😊

The sack of Constantinople was the the 4th crusade… Salahaddin Ayyubi took Jerusalem during the 3rd crusade, the two are not related directly

🤣 'promo sm'

I knew where the Latin-Roman Rite Catholics who lived in the Greater Syriac-Roman Region (until VII), the thumbnail made me laugh😂😂😅 The Holy Crusades were 100% just and as virtuous as is possible.

@stlouisix3

3 ай бұрын

Only Catholics are Orthodox

@stlouisix3

3 ай бұрын

May all reasonable people convert to Catholicism. Deus Vult. Amen.

@bobdollaz3391

3 ай бұрын

The Bishop of Rome isn't infallible!

@ash_11117

3 ай бұрын

@@bobdollaz3391Partially, only on matters of dogma is he considered infallible, which happens very rarely.

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

Especially the current one.@@bobdollaz3391

Again you only bring up what the Christians did in a counterattack and said absolutely nothing about the absolute massacre of Christians by muslims when they invaded.

@skp8748

3 ай бұрын

When?

@antiantifa886

3 ай бұрын

@@skp8748 Arabs invaded Byzantium and Persia nimrod.

@antiantifa886

3 ай бұрын

@@skp8748 also I suspect masaman is a Palestinian supporter. Don’t kid yourself islam has massacred since it’s inception. Colonized as well.

@skp8748

3 ай бұрын

@@antiantifa886 your so dumb... what were the byzantines doing there? What's Palestine got to do with it

@nanashi7779

25 күн бұрын

@@antiantifa886 what are you talking about mate

I once met a Turkish guy from the Latin community who lived in Germany and had converted to Islam there.

Are the DNA tests legit ? i'd like to know my roots

1:40 it's "razed"

I once met a Lebanese Shia Muslim guy who has blonde hair and blue eyes (with a British accent). He could have passed for an Englishman if he did not tell me he was Lebanese

@skp8748

3 ай бұрын

What does being Shia have to do with it?

@lordguan88

3 ай бұрын

@@skp8748 oh he just brought up the fact. I thought he was British, and when I asked him if he was Maronite, he told me he was actually Shia Muslim, which found very interesting.

@fatimasaksouk

2 ай бұрын

Is he from the south?

@lordguan88

2 ай бұрын

@@fatimasaksouk no idea. I did not ask

Ethnically speaking, Middle East Christians, especially in Iraq and Levant, are largely native. They have very strong Semitic middle eastern features like the typical aquiline nose, brachycephalic skull, and thick body build. They tend to have fairer skin and more blue/green eyes than Muslims but not always. In general, they are homogeneous with other local surroundings ethnicities like Arabs, Kurds, and Turks. There is no evidence of wide European admixture. The white trait in the Middle East, including Iran and Turkey, and across all ethnicities, originated from the Caucasus region thousand of years ago and is not related to European ancestry.

@matthewmann8969

3 ай бұрын

Semites, Indo Iranians, Latins, Greeks, And Armenians are all Med peoples the pure ones with olive skin lines or liners with raven hair color with hairy bodies with brown, black, and occasionally hazel eye colors unless they are albinos or some other related skin mutation or mutator yeah.

@hishamalaker491

3 ай бұрын

Well how about this, I am a Palestinian-Syrian Arab Muslim with pale skin and light hair so are my siblings and I have a Syrian tanned or dark skinned (not black but brown-ish) christian friend what do you think of that? I also have a Jordanian christian friend but he is definetly 100% Arab and semitic because he is from Jordan and also from his features.

@matthewmann8969

3 ай бұрын

​@@hishamalaker491Yeah the ones with pale skin tones possibly either have Slav, Eastern Baltic, Germanic, Nord, Celtic, Alpine, Or Western Caucasus Mountain admixture if they also had light hair colors too as well as eye colors yeah.

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

Depends on what you consider "wide". Most Levantine Melkites have Greek DNA to some degree. Levantine Christians carry more European DNA than Muslims, but Muslims also carry it. The evidence is there. 5%? 10%? What is "wide" What is "White Trait". Green/Blue Eyes and light skin? That is common throughout the region. I find the Druze have a lot of light eyed people as do Persians. Sumerians are often painted with blue eyes.

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

There is no "pure". Mediterraneans are Mixed from many migrations of peoples since before the Bronze age. @@matthewmann8969

Holy is a misnomer The land actually has very bad karma

@thelotharingian7500

3 ай бұрын

But the land is a very logical area for a divine entity to visit because its in the center of afroeurasia

@happybeejv

3 ай бұрын

Live long and prosper 🤘

@hieratics

3 ай бұрын

​@thelotharingian7500 then it should have had visited Egypt, which is/were a much more relevant, economically and culturally rich land than the Levant.

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

Egypt was a part of the equation. @@hieratics

4:52 that kingdom of africa never made it much past tripoli, never got the coast past it

You fotgot French colonial rule. Especially in Lebanon.

@konstantinosdragasespalaio4178

3 ай бұрын

Colonial rule didn't leave a genetic trace

@user-gr9fq9gt9w

3 ай бұрын

@@konstantinosdragasespalaio4178 There were quite a few intermarriages.

@konstantinosdragasespalaio4178

3 ай бұрын

@@user-gr9fq9gt9w very few it left no impact

@orpheasnestos7444

3 ай бұрын

That didn’t affect the local population much at all though and it was short lived.

@user-gr9fq9gt9w

3 ай бұрын

@@orpheasnestos7444 When I said "colonial rule", I meant to all of the history of French intervention in Lebanon. It wasn't significant genetic impact, but it was at least some.

Deus vult

@connor1734

3 ай бұрын

Deus Vult!

Eastern Catholicism/Christianity is weird, weak and disharmonious to me. Once you go east of Rome it just turns into communism. Western Catholicism is more theologically harmonious and in concord with the Levantine area but it’s hard to express why that would be. There are ‘western Catholics’ in history who would probably be ‘Muslims’ by eastern/Byzantine standards (I.e. Charlemagne) Due to the theological schisms So It is interesting to think that the most successful Christians in such regions were non-Christians in an Arabic/Levantine/Eastern context. One can be both a Jesuit and a Arab Muslim, but one can’t be both a Arab Christian and an Arab Muslim. I’m still not sure why that would be or why that is but it’s interesting to mediate on

@skp8748

3 ай бұрын

Erm... Islam is more align with Judaism than hellenised 'christianity'. Only overlap with islam and Christianity is that Jesus was the messiah and was sent by God. Saying he IS God or that God is divisible by three or that Jesus was the son of God is unambiguously idolatrous blasphemous polytheism. Saying that he died on the cross is also categorically heretical and it considers Saul of Tarsus to be a completely hellenised heathen who corrupted the message of Jesus by instead spreading his own greek pagan inspired message. The big schism between Judaism and Islam is that they rejected the messiah which Jews believe hasn't yet come... Due to that rejection of one of rising amongst them even working with the pagan Romans to quash him and his message their covenant with God ended and Muhammad a son of Ishmael was sent as the final seal to all mankind. However they align on monotheism, that God cannot be anthropomorphised as He is incorporeal unlike in christianity where the Greek tradition of deification of the human body is followed.

We Wuz Catholicz n Shiet

@silasbishop3055

3 ай бұрын

Everyone was Catholic until they weren't.

lol subtitles are a little fucked

Don’t want to offend those muslims huh.

So not only were Jews in Levant before Muslims but Christians were too, I think that gives me the right to move back there, oh but hold on the Pagans were there before all of them. Seriously guys time to ditch any organised religions join the 21ST century , religion had its place to give structure to societies but was abused and is still by those in power. If you have Democracy ,education and laws peace will prevail. Peace to all

@cl9615

3 ай бұрын

Christianity is a proselytizing religion, whereas Judaism is not. A Christian in Argentina has very little to do with a Christian in the Middle East, the only common factor being that they worship a dead Jew from Judea.

@user-gr9fq9gt9w

3 ай бұрын

Yeah... obviously. The first Christians were Jews that converted. (Only about half of the first sentence, the rest is gibberish).

@mobo7420

3 ай бұрын

Are you literally a descendant of Levantine people with a connection to your ancestral homeland, or are you perhaps of Western European descent and your ancestors converted to Christianity some 1500 years ago?

@antonyreyn

3 ай бұрын

@@mobo7420 hi my point is about fighting wars based on redundant religions (any) Cheers

@DankusMemicus

3 ай бұрын

"It's [the current year], people should stop believing things that I don't believe in."

8:23 Wrong, what destroyed the Byzantines was their infighting more so than anything, that's what caused the conquest of Constantinople, by an army mostly made up of Venetians that the pope had excommunicated, therefore not a real crusade any longer.

it's so annoying that you speak so rapidly. just reading a script quickly. really bizarre....

@hieratics

3 ай бұрын

Just slow down the speed yourself

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