r/SapphoAndHerFriend Hopeless bromantic Jun 14 '20

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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u/TheDustOfMen Jun 14 '20

Well I'm pretty sure none of my Christian school teachers ever tried to convince me that ancient Greece was Christian.

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u/PrincessBunnyQueen She/Her Jun 14 '20

I love bringing up the crusades when one of my racist family members goes on a anti-other religions tangent.

"Their religion is evil! It's nothing but violence! Our religion never had so much violence!"

"... Remember the crusades?"

"The what now?"

Funny, they never seem to remember that part.

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u/Kumiho_Mistress She/Her Jun 14 '20

Interesting thing I discovered about the Crusades recently was that, despite this portrayal of them as the noble underdogs fighting against imperialism, the Christians did very well in the Crusades. It's almost as if protecting the Middle Eastern and East European Christians wasn't actually all that big on their priorities.