Being the only ones capable of doing it in their region for being the most literate

ok listen up you cheeky bastard

jews have not been at any given point, forced to do banking and controling the money

sure

believe the parts of history that best suit your agenda

to say that they have that, just gives them "the reasons" to act the way they do

it makes no sense to force a bunch of jews, who clearly are hated in your religion, to control the money

It didn't work the same way as today

they cant secretly send your money to a bank account in switzerland

people have, countless times, especially christians, hated jews with a passion

that's the reason they were thrown out of the natiouns multiple times

It's called being a religious fanatic

n o

ok

The Jews were exiled by the Romans because their monotheistic views didn’t align with the Roman’s ability to integrate polytheistic gods from other cultures with polytheistic pantheons, if Judaism had multiple gods they likely wouldn’t have been expelled as early as they were.

Wasn’t necessarily out of hate, just that they were stubborn.

dont people claim the jews were responsible for jesus death?

hoe if they were expelled?

jews have been given the boot countless time after that also though

how

the boot doesnt mean they cant work as a banker

money is money

a good banker is a good banker

But then again, if Judaism was polytheistic, then Christianity wouldn’t exist, and likely Islam after that.

romans became christian eventually

I’m aware.

But if Christianity didn’t exist, obviously the Romans wouldn’t be Christian.

yup

And as for the Crusades, the Crusaders were fairly equal with who they killed. It was mostly just random slaughter with no regard for one’s religion, especially during the Sacking of Jerusalem in the 1st Crusade.

I’m in no way defending them, though. The Crusaders were assholes, and the 4th Crusade is the reason my inner Greek cries themselves to sleep every night.

Crusaders were the bad guys then and the jihadists were good

still is the case today

jihad means defending the holy land

that is NOT what isis is doing

so they arent actual jihadists

I would say the Syrian army and Kurds are the real jihadists and jihad by definition is pretty good

I mean "jihad" just means struggle

Islam was a fundamentally good thing from the end of the Arab conquests to the rise of the Mongols and later the Ottomans, this period being the Islamic Golden Age.

The Muslim world was the center of progress in the world at that time, and other monotheistic religions like Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism were not persecuted at all, as the Arabs found their religions to basically be worshiping the same single deity, just in different ways.

However, as the rest of the world began to progress, Islamic thought had yet to reform, and hasn’t seen much of a positive change at all in almost 700 years.

Hell, debatably it’s gone backwards, as tolerance of the other two Abrahamic religions has been significantly reduced.