It’s a few days late but I had to post it here regardless.

Feel free to reblog.

Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac is halted by an angel. Fresco in St. Sofia Cathedral, Kyiv, Ukraine, painted ca. 1000.

Imperial Byzantine Kataphraktoi crushing Fatimids, 995.

by Giuseppe Rava

Do you guys genuinely not know that Christianity came from the Middle East?

Do you actually forget that Middle Eastern Christians exist?

Do you genuinely believe that Christianity is the majority religion everywhere?

Do you genuinely think that most Christians are white?

Are you aware of the persecution of Christians outside of the west?

Did you know that many indigenous ethnic groups in the Middle East are Christian?

Cause it looks like you guys aren’t aware of it. It seems like you guys see every religion from a western pov.

Seeing a white person say unironically that PK and WL are colonizers is so fucking telling that they have zero idea of what racism actually is or the implications behind it, they're just parroting the most basic bullshit to look good. Like come the fuck on that take is racist as shit and its not because PK and WL are any less awful than colonizers. It's incorrect at best but genuinely an awful fucking take when parroted for clout bc you dont wanna be seen as problematic

(It's racist bc equating a genocidal god who you have to shred apart with extreme violence in order to have peace with the pain and anger of indigenous people is. Hm. Bad!!! Not to mention the fact that Radi has a very strong Christian angel motif going on and engages in a 'holy crusade' against everyone in Hallownest INCLUDING OTHER INDIGENOUS TRIBES NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE PALE KING like how the actual fuck can you look at her and go 'oh yeah she represents indigenous people because the moths have what look like dreamcatcher motifs with the essence motes' and unironically think you're not being racist. What the actual fuck)

((Double disclaimer: you can actually write a really interesting and nuanced altcanon narrative with this concept but the problem is that almost nobody ever does, they only ever flag it as 'problematic' because they want to look good, not bc they know the implications))

Saint Olga of Kyiv 

After the murder of her husband Igor of kyiv she avenged her husband's death and ruled Kievan Rus as regent for her son, Sviatoslav I of kyiv. She was the first sovereign of the Slavs to convert to Christianity.

Has anyone else noticed some people starting to grow against monotheism, or even theism in general, or....

Okay so, yesterday night, in a video talking about cultures with more than 2 genders (which are many, btw), someone said that monotheism ruined everything.

And I corrected them, saying: Actually, only christianity, because christianity was the only one to dominate the world and get lgbtphobic at some point in the hands of europe.

And they were like: No, all 3 religions are homophobic, islam being the worst of them, you must hate the west.

???

I doesn't help any bit knowing that most people think all the 3 religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) worship the same God (It is worth remembering that they are based on the same Abraham, but not on the same God. Because it is impossible for the God of Christianity, who sent Jesus to be a savior, to be the same God of Islam, where Jesus is, as far as I know, a prophet) and have the same morals, rules or even doctrine as Christianity.

And I'm scared, because this association could lead into a wave of islamophobia and anti-semitism (which are racist, because you're going against a non white culture in specific).

Or, this could be a small paranoia my brain created and Jewish and Muslim + Arab people are safe, nonetheless. 😃🤷🏽‍♂️

I want to hear y'all's opinions, please, I can't stand this feeling growing up insida'me- 🙇🏽‍♀️😭

Kinder Than Miriam by Kajal Ahmad (tr. Choman Hardi)

have you ever dated a middle eastern man?

I dated a Persian guy once but he was born & raised here & so just as clueless about his culture as I was lol. Other than that, no. All the other guys I talked to have literally been every other race but middle eastern 💀💀 not by choice it just hasn’t happened idk

I feel like I should warn my new followers that I have PMDD and sometimes get extremely, unreasonably combative for absolutely no reason. like right now. I wanna rant and this is your disclaimer.

like I cannot for the fucking life of me understand how people think the First Crusade was the first holy war between Catholics* and Muslims when the Umayyads and Franks, Visigoths, Normans, Italians, and Sicilians et al had been duking it out in Iberia, France, and Italy since the Early Muslim Conquests in the 7th and 8th centuries. do not let the name fool you, the First Crusade was not the first crusade. like it’s just... bro they were fighting on and off more or less constantly since first contact. what do you MEAN you think the Crusades were the unprovoked start of Christian-Muslim holy wars and not a new phase of an already extant centuries-long conflict. I think you’re just a fucking idiot.

strictly speaking, depending on how you want to define ‘Catholic,’ (since the Nicene Christian denominations at least were extremely ambiguous and fluid at this point and significant/formal schism only happened much later) the first Catholic/Nicene Christian-Muslim conflict started in September 629 AD with the Battle of Mu’tah, which was fought between the Byzantines and Ghassanids vs the Muslim Arabs led by the Pr. Muhammad. like when I say ‘first contact’ I mean first contact.

look. it's fine and honestly healthy to be critical of gender-specific modesty expectations. but westerners need to finish up with free the nipple before they rip into other cultures' modesty expectations of women.

Jason Statham x Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Byzantine icon of the Madonna (Theotokos) and Child, of the type known as Hodegetria (Our Lady of the Way): Mary gestures toward the infant Christ, who in turn raises his hand in a sign of blessing. The type originated in a now lost icon from the Monastery of the Panagia Hodegetria in Constantinople that was said to have been painted by St. Luke. This example, by an unknown artist, dates to the 14th century and is in the MUZA, Valletta, Malta.

Tumblr girlies be like: I absolutely support harassment and murder but I draw the line at being antisemitic!

im scrolling through tiktok and i just found out that people don't know that arab christians exist

What.

I’m not a fan of religion playing a role in politics, or of the Chaldean Catholic Church (it’s because of Latinization).

But he’s right!

The Assyrians in Iraq (and the rest of the Assyrian homeland) shouldn’t be held to ransom by a bunch of Iranian-backed (and other) thugs with guns.

Or by any other terrorists.

This is true for ALL Assyrians.

Not just the ones in Iraq!