The mind struggles to comprehend how so-called "Christians", when torturing and killing, could deceive themselves into believing that they were serving God when they were obviously serving Satan; that, when they committed such atrocities in the name of God, they were not committing the ultimate blasphemy; that in worshipping the god of death, torture, and violence they were worshipping not God but Satan. The mind struggles to comprehend how Muslims could be similarly misguided.
Christian emergence from the horrors and delusions of the Middle Ages was a long, hard time coming. Muslim emergence is taking longer, if indeed it will come at all.
However, after giving Puritanism a final fling under Oliver Cromwell, the English had had enough of horror, violence, and the perversion of God's will and worship and ushered in a more enlightened civilization. Perhaps Muslims will do the same.
This is not to encourage mindless optimism. Denial is the most dangerous thing there is.
And it is definitely not to encourage the routine mindless optimism, denial, and delusion of the psychotic Left.
It is merely an observation.
The mind struggles to comprehend how so-called “Christians”, when torturing and killing, could deceive themselves into believing that they were serving God
The mind shouldn’t struggle. The Church was, at that time, a great societal powercenter. As such it attracted the same type of Evil that ANY such powercenter tends to attract. ie: The types who want to make sure that others live as THEY say others should. (by the way there is such a “powercenter” attracting these types in the present day)
“Thrust” NEVER changes direction. Evil, as a force, is subject to this law.