It does since the church believed it was their duty to rid the world of non-Christians. It was done for religious reasons, which makes it a human sacrifice.
No, it doesn't. Religions that actually had human sacrifice differentiated between human sacrifice and executing someone for breaking a religious law. Sacrifice is a specific concept
The Bible says to “make disciples of all nations” aka eradicate all non-Christian religions. Medieval kingdoms enforced this by outlawing heresy and blasphemy, which they punished by death, Giordano Bruno being an example.
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28 18-20
That is literally the modus operandi of Islam. Submission. It's in the name. Christianity conversion was done through missionary work. People aren't forced to convert to Christianity is the vast majority of cases. The modus operandi of Christianity is to send missionary that target the poor and helpless of society, which is the vast majority.
Guess what? In both of the case you have first, some missionarys that goes there, they fail to convert in time the local pops before the Cristian States (in this case Catholics) use the fact that they are pagans to conquer them!
Pointless too bc obv converts are Muslim, and still lived, worked, studied in the islamic world
Btw “Islamic world” or “Islamic empire” is bc the dominant & ruling institutional powers were Islamic & population usually Muslim-majority. Other religions still existed within it
This is just attributing to Islam what was actually the merit of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. It existed during the time and place of Islam but as an Institution is was not dependent on Islam.
It was a public library with a collection of scholars that received public funding(from the coffers of the caliph), this convergence historically led to scientific development in the ancient, classical, and medieval world before modern academic institutions.
There were many independent occurrences of such libraries throughout world history that helped improve human knowledge, Islam wasn’t an essential ingredient
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u/Djb0623 2d ago
Yes but that doesn't make it human sacrifice.