I wholeheartedly believe it happened. But, to be the devil's advocate...whatever the real truth might be, we do know that the Frisian pagans killed Saint Boniface for what he did to the tree.

Charles went on to win a miraculous victory against a numerically superior force including cavalry, with his own force consisting mostly of heavy infantry, taking relatively few casualties and even killing the Muslim governor of Spain.

His grandson was Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne

We still find mass graves from the Roman era etc. But we aren't finding that from the Europagans. There's no hard evidence they were converted by the sword, so why would they all give up their ancestral religions and adopt a "foreign" faith? My answer, though you probably won't accept it, is miracles. To be a saint, someone must have miracles attributed to them. Saint Boniface, Saint Patrick, and so on. Did they perform miracles in front of the masses of pagans, as proof of God?

Fast forward a couple more centuries. The Crusades. Why Islam is illegitimate is another topic I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. So we know what they did, they basically killed everyone. But it is basic Islamic theology that any Jew or Christian who volunteers to convert to Islam is spared. This hasn't changed in 1400 years. Of course they don't always honor this, but why the MASSIVE slaughter in the Holy Land, unless people refused to give up their faith? Some Jews survived, that's about it.

Under feudalism all fit male commoners must serve in the army of their lord for 40 days per year, but cannot be deployed outside of their lord's territories. Hence the need for mercenaries. Knights owed service as well, but also had to work as a kind of frontier police, judge, and do other things. The key here is that everyone who went on "pilgrimage" as it was called back then, was a volunteer. They had to buy their own weapons, armor, everything. Imagine you are going to fight ISIS, but you must buy your own tank, your own food, ammo, transportation, everything, and you will never be reimbursed, never get paid for it, and will probably die.

Pilgrimage prior to the Crusades was religious tourism, and people who went to holy sites, such as the sites of the birth and crucifixion of Christ, etc prayed for things and actually believed that miracles would happen from doing this.

They didn't stop because of the Muslims. They just ended up getting killed a lot.

Why would people go through all this, multiple times even, unless there was something to it?

If I eat something that tastes like shit, I don't eat it again.

If I work for someone and he doesn't pay me, I will never work for him again.

There must have been SOMETHING that happened to these people to motivate them to render themselves destitute and risk their lives. Keep in mind, a lot of them went more than once. Everyone from peasants to kings went.

Again on miracles, the founder of the Knights Templar is Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. One of his alleged miracles is healing 14 sick people who came to his house when he was preaching from a window. He also allegedly healed a bailiff's deaf and dumb nephew, and two blind people including a kid blind from birth

Now I was 17 when I joined the army, but suppose it was the same system of buying all your own stuff, walking across a continent to the warzone, and probably getting killed etc. I'm not sure I'd do it. What better motivator than the army recruiter healing a bunch of people in front of the public?

Saint Bernard was able to raise over 100,000 troops, not including military orders like the Templars and Hospitallers.

By reading population estimates by scholars, and knowing that he only preached the Second Crusade in Germany and France, we know that he was able to recruit about 5% of military-age men to fight.

Not accounting for disability, clergy, and so on

Or the merchants who made arms and armor

tl:dr God is real and you should believe in him

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Amen brothers

Lmao

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This is fake.

Are you sure?

There was a test of dyed sugar water to turn ants a different color.

So by consuming a set amount of colored sugar water/liquid candy they change colors, as seen in the picture above

That's what (((they))) want you to believe

Good goy, here's some shekels

Holy shit lmao

It's called an experiment.

You can't turn gay from an ant biting you.

Will you go to hell if you are suddenly forced to turn gay by Chemicals and can't control your urges?

Besides, homosexuality is a choice, and the more gay men the merrier. More pussy for me, less competition.

Rags is fucking with ya my man 🤣

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