Posted on 09/07/2023 6:29:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Today in history witnessed an epic battle between Christians and Muslims. The sheer ferocity and valor displayed at the battle of Arsuf would make most otherwise “breathtaking” battle scenes emanating from Hollywood seem like child’s play.
Context: in late August, 1191, Richard the Lionhearted, at the head of a large force of Crusaders, set out from Acre to Jaffa. Along with the fierce Syrian sun, the Christians were harried by a nonstop deluge of arrows from the hordes of Saladin, he who a few years earlier had all but annihilated the Crusaders at the Horns of Hattin.
Despite the casualties from arrows, sunstroke, snakebite, starvation, and disease, the Christian warriors remained undaunted and pressed on. Saladin’s own biographer, Baha’ al-Din, expressed dismay: “I saw various individuals amongst the Franks with ten arrows fixed in their backs, pressing on in this fashion quite unconcerned… Consider the endurance of these people, bearing exhausting tasks without any pay or material gain.”
Finally, on September 6, as the Crusaders emerged from a dense wood, there on the vast plains of Arsuf, they saw “all the forces” of Islam marshalled before them, “from Damascus and Persia, from the Mediterranean Sea to the East,” writes a chronicler. There was not a single warlike Muslim people “whom Saladin had not summoned to aid him in crushing the Christian people,” for he “hoped to wipe the Christians completely off the face of the earth.”
Battle commenced on the morning of September 7, 1191. A wild din erupted from the Muslim camp. Drums, horns, and cymbals banged and brayed, to reverberant cries of “Allahu Akbar” and other “horrible yells.” As the Crusaders knelt in prayer and went into battle formation, the “land all around resounded with the echo of their [Muslims’] harsh cries and roaring noise.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And today everything that was fought for is being given away to the hoards without a fight.
Their heirs are not Christian ... the ones showing a fruit of depraved minds per Romans 1:18-32 that is ... they are ready to join with islam provided some accommodation can be made to let then keep their beloved poofters and now trannys with them.
Just think, those men did not know they were white supremacists enabling the formation of Western Christian Civilization.
But now we have achieved illumination, and can detect the sins of our ancestors.
What a great article and “lead” to an author I want to read.
On Amazon the book has over 250 reviews and a rating of 4.8 out of 5. The foreword is by historian Victor Davis Hanson.
I just purchased the audiobook.
Whereas, all today’s Christians are capable of is turning their inexhaustible supply of other cheeks.
Please let me know how you like the book.
Very sadly, I cannot argue with that.
Recognize that there are divisions in the faith. Granted, most have become liberals and are in the stinking Reformed class joining ranks with progressives. Yet, there are still some conservative, strong-minded fundamentalists left. .
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